Case No.: IT-02-54-T

IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
28 November 2002

 

PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

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ORDER ACCEPTING THIRD PARTY SUBMISSION

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The Office of the Prosecutor

Ms. Carla Del Ponte Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Geoffrey Nice Mr. Dermot Groome

The Accused

Slobodan Milosevic

Amici Curiae

Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Timothy McCormack
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic

Ms. Emma Bonino

 

THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("International Tribunal"),

NOTING the confidential ex parte memorandum dated 18 November 2002 addressed to the Trial Chamber by the Registrar of the International Tribunal, acting pursuant to his powers under Rule 33 (B) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"), in which the attention of the Trial Chamber is drawn to a letter from Ms. Emma Bonino, member of the European Parliament dated 15 October 2002, addressing the veracity of a statement made by the accused in his opening remarks in relation to the Croatia phase of the proceedings and attributed by the accused to Ms. Bonino in her role as European Commissioner ("the Bonino letter")

NOTING that Ms. Bonino is not a party to these proceedings,

CONSIDERING, however, the matters raised by the Registrar in the memorandum,

Proprio motu

PURSUANT TO Rules 54 and 74 of the Rules

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

  1. the Bonino letter shall be formally entered in the record of these proceedings; and
  2. the Bonino letter and the memorandum from the Registrar dated 18 November 2002 shall be served on all parties.

 

Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.

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Richard May
Presiding

Dated this twenty-eighth day of November 2002
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]