Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
9 September 2003

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

Dario KORDIC & Mario CERKEZ

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ORDER REPLACING A JUDGE IN A CASE BEFORE THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Counsel for the Prosecution:

Mr. Norman Farrell

Counsel for the Defence:

Mr. Mitko Naumovski, Mr. Turner T. Smith and Mr. Stephen M. Sayers for Dario Kordic
Mr. Bozidar Kovacic and Mr. Goran Mikulicic for Mario Cerkez

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 appeals lodged by Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez on 12 March 2001 and by the Office of the Prosecutor on 13 March 2001 against the Judgement rendered by Trial Chamber III on 26 February 2001;

NOTING the "Order of the Presiding Judge Replacing a Judge in a case Before the Appeals Chamber" issued on 6 August 2003;

CONSIDERING the composition of the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal as set out in Document IT/215 of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("Composition of the Appeals Chamber"), dated 13 June 2003;

CONSIDERING Rule 27(C) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"), which provides that "The President may at any time temporarily assign a member of a Trial Chamber or of the Appeals Chamber to another Chamber";

CONSIDERING the need to expedite the hearing and resolution of the appeals;

PURSUANT TO Articles 12(3) and 14(3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rule 27 of the Rules;

HEREBY ASSIGN, with immediate effect, Judge Florence Mumba to replace me in the present case;

AND DETERMINE that the Appeals Chamber, in case no. IT-95-14/2-A, The Prosecutor v. Dario Kordic & Mario Cerkez, shall now be composed as follows:

Judge Fausto Pocar

Judge Wolfgang Schomburg

Judge Florence Mumba

Judge Mehmet Güney

Judge Inés Mónica Weinberg De Roca

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

Done this 9^th day of September 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

[Seal of the Tribunal]