IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

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

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
25 March 2003

PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

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ORDER ON ADJOURNMENT OF PROCEEDINGS

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The Office of the Prosecutor

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

The Accused

Slobodan Milosevic

Amici Curiae

Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Mr. Timothy L.H. McCormack

 

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 that the accused in these proceedings has been unable to attend court since 18 March 2003 due to ill health, characterised by high blood pressure,

NOTING the reported refusal of the accused to take the prescribed increased medication recommended by his treating cardiologist, Dr. van Dijkman,

NOTING the indication of the Trial Chamber of its intention to order medical reports and a medical hearing with respect to the purported side-effects of the medication prescribed by Dr. van Dijkman and the health of the accused,

CONSIDERING HOWEVER the information received from the Commanding Officer of the United Nations Detention Unit ("UNDU") on 25 March 2003, that the accused has agreed to take another form of increased medication that is acceptable to Dr. van Dijkman and which, it is believed, will bring the accused’s high blood pressure under control and render him fit to attend court possibly within two days,

PURSUANT TO RULE 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal

HEREBY ORDERS:

  1. that the order for medical reports and a medical hearing referred to above is adjourned; and
  2. that these proceedings will reconvene on Thursday, 27 March 2003, subject to the medical condition of the accused.

 

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

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Richard May
Presiding

Dated this twenty-fifth day of March 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]