THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 10 August 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

MLADEN NALETILIC AND VINKO MARTINOVIC

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ORDER OF THE ACTING PRESIDENT ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER AND
FOR THE CONDUCT OF ROUTINE MATTERS

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Vasili Poriouvaev

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Seriec

 

I, Lal Chand Vohrah, Acting 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 ("the International Tribunal"),

ACTING pursuant to sub-Rule 22(A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules");

NOTING the transfer of the accused Vinko Martinovic ("the Accused") to the seat of the International Tribunal on 9 August 1999;

NOTING the intended initial appearance of the Accused on 12 August 1999;

CONSIDERING that Judge Fouad Riad and Judge Simões Rodrigues are both absent on leave;

CONSIDERING that pursuant to sub-Rule 15(E) the holding of an initial appearance under Rule 62 of the Rules is a routine matter;

PURSUANT to Rules 15, 22 and 62 of the Rules;

HEREBY DECIDE to assign the case relating to the Accused to Trial Chamber I, composed of:

Judge Claude Jorda (Presiding)

Judge Fouad Riad

Judge Simões Rodrigues

AND FURTHER ORDERS that Judge Claude Jorda, may, sitting alone under Rule 62 of the Rules, hold an initial appearance for the Accused.

 

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

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Lal Chand Vohrah
Acting President

Dated this tenth day of August 1999,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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