Case: IT-03-69-I

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
30 May 2003

THE PROSECUTOR
v.
Jovica STANISIC and Franko SIMATOVIC

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ORDER ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte

The Accused:

Mr. Jovica Stanisic
Mr. Franko Simatovic

 

I, THEODOR MERON, 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 transfer of the accused Franko Simatovic to the seat of the International Tribunal on 30 May 2003;

CONSIDERING that Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal provides, inter alia, that "SuCpon transfer of an accused to the seat of the Tribunal, the President shall forthwith assign the case to a Trial Chamber" and "StChe accused shall be brought before that Trial Chamber or a permanent Judge thereof without delay, and shall be formally charged";

HEREBY ASSIGN Case No. IT-03-69-I, The Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, to Trial Chamber III.

 

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

Dated this 30th day of May 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

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