Case: IT-02-63-I

ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Fausto Pocar

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
18 March 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Drago NIKOLIC

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ORDER ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms Carla Del Ponte

I, FAUSTO POCAR, Vice-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 the Indictment in The Prosecutor v Drago Nikolic;

NOTING that the Registry has advised that the Accused, Drago Nikolic, has been detained and transferred to the seat of the Tribunal pursuant to Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;

NOTING that Rule 62 requires that the President of the Tribunal forthwith assign the case to a Trial Chamber;

CONSIDERING the temporary absence of President Theodor Meron;

CONSIDERING that, pursuant to Rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal, the Vice-President of the International Tribunal shall exercise the functions of the President during the latter’s absence;

HEREBY ASSIGN, effective immediately, the present case to Trial Chamber I.

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

Dated this 18th day of March 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Fausto Pocar
Acting President

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