Case No.: IT-02-54-T

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Fausto Pocar, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
22 March 2006

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

Slobodan MILOSEVIC

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ORDER ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Geoffrey Nice

Government of Serbia and Montenegro:

Mr. Rasim Ljajic
Ms. Sanja Milinkovic

Former Court Assigned Counsel:

Mr. Steven Kay
Ms. Gillian Higgins

 

I, FAUSTO POCAR, President 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 "Serbia and Montenegro’s Submission for Redaction of Certain Parts of the Trial Chamber’s ‘Decision on Applications of Prosecution and Serbia and Montenegro Pursuant to Rule 54bis’ Issued on 9 December 2005," filed confidentially by the government of Serbia and Montenegro on 15 March 2006 ("Submission");

NOTING further "Serbia and Montenegro’s Motion to Vacate or Indefinitely Suspend the Trial Chamber’s ‘Decision on Applications of Prosecution and Serbia and Montenegro Pursuant to Rule 54bis’ Issued on 9 December 2005," filed confidentially by the government of Serbia and Montenegro on 15 March 2006 ("Motion");

RECALLING the "Order Terminating the Proceedings," issued by Trial Chamber III on 14 March 2006, terminating all trial proceedings in Prosecutor v. Milosevic, Case No. IT-02-54-T, due to the death of Slobodan Milosevic;

NOTING that Rule 19 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal authorizes the President of the International Tribunal to coordinate the work of the Chambers;

CONSIDERING the trial management and case distribution needs of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY ASSIGN, effective immediately, Trial Chamber III to consider the Motion and Submission filed by Serbia and Montenegro in the Milosevic case on 15 March 2006.

 

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

Done this 22nd day of March 2006,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Fausto Pocar
President

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