IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Antonio Cassese, Presiding
Judge Richard May
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of: 12 June 1998
PROSECUTOR
v.
MILE MRKSIC,
MIROSLAV RADIC,
VESELIN SLJIVANCANIN,
SLAVKO DOKMANOVIC
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ORDER ON DEFENCE MOTION FOR SAFE CONDUCT
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Grant Niemann
Mr. Clint Williamson
Mr. Stefan Wäspi
Ms. Ann Sutherland
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Toma Fila and Mr. Vladimir Petrovic, for Slavko Dokmanovic
THE TRIAL CHAMBER
NOTING the Defence Motion To Enable To Call Witness By Means Of Safe Conduct filed on 11 June 1998 ("the Motion") requesting that safe conduct be granted to Milan Knezevic ("the Witness") who will testify on behalf of the Defence,
NOTING that the Office of the Prosecutor ("the Prosecution"), having been consulted through the Registry, has no objection to the grant of safe conduct for the Witness,
NOTING FURTHER the Decision on Defence Motions to Summon and Protect Defence Witnesses, and on the Giving of Evidence by Video-Link, rendered on 25 June 1996 by Trial Chamber II in Prosecutor v. Dusko Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1-T, which established that safe conduct, although not provided for in the Statute of the International Tribunal, can be ordered under the general power of Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules"),
CONSIDERING that the physical presence of witnesses before the International Tribunal is of fundamental importance to the administration of justice,
PURSUANT to Rule 54 of the Rules
AND WITH THE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES
HEREBY GRANTS the Motion in the terms set out below and ORDERS as follows:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Antonio Cassese
Presiding Judge
Dated this twelfth day of June 1998
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]