IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Decision of:
06 May 2003
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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ORDER FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE ABSENCE OF A JUDGE
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Reztzlaff
Mr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Slobodan Milosevic
Amicus Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Mr. Timothy McCormack
JUDGE RICHARD MAY and JUDGE PATRICK ROBINSON, members of Trial Chamber III 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 ("the International Tribunal"),
NOTING that the third member of the Trial Chamber, Judge O-Gon Kwon, is required for reasons of authorised Tribunal business, to be absent from the seat of the International Tribunal for a period of four days,
CONSIDERING that the remaining Judges of the Trial Chamber are satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to continue the hearing of the case in the absence of Judge O-Gon Kwon,
PURSUANT to Rule 15 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
HEREBY ORDER that the hearing of the case of Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic, Case No. IT-02-54-T, continue in the absence of Judge O-Gon Kwon for a period of four days commencing Monday 16 June and ending on Thursday 19 June 2003.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
_____________________________Dated this sixth day of May 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]