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note that this is not a verbatim transcript of the Press Briefing. It is merely
a summary.
ICTY
Weekly Press Briefing
Date: 4 September 2002
Time: 14:30
REGISTRY
AND CHAMBERS
Jim Landale, Spokesman for Registry and Chambers, made the following statement:
Good afternoon,
A document that
was filed on 30 July, but has not yet been mentioned and should be brought to
your attention is the "Decision on Motion for Review" in the
Tadic case. The Motion was dismissed.
On 30 August,
in the Prosecutor v. Blagojevic, Obrenovic, Jokic and Nikolic, we received the
"Appeal of the Trial Chamber’s Decision on Dragan Obrenovic’s Application
for Provisional Release".
Again on 30 August,
in the Prosecutor v. Mile Mrksic, we received the "Defense Brief on
Appeal Against Trial Chamber’s Decision to Deny Provisional Release".
Also on 30 August,
in the Prosecutor v. Gojko Jankovic, we received a "Motion for Issue
of Warrant of Arrest and Order For Surrender and for Orders Regarding their
Transmission".
On 2 September
in the Prosecution v. Blagojevic, Obrenovic, Jokic and Nikolic, we received
the "Prosecution Request for Leave to File Consolidated Response to
Pending Motion by the Accused Obrenovic, and to Anticipated Motion by Accused
Blagojevic, Regarding Appeal on Applications for Provisional Release".
Also on 2 September,
in the same case we received the "Appeal From the Trial Chamber’s Impugned
Decision on Vidoje Blagojevic’s Application for Provisional Release".
On 3 September
in the Prosecutor v. Dragan Zelenovic, we received a "Motion for Issue
of Warrant of Arrest and Order For Surrender and for Orders Regarding their
Transmission".
Again, on 3 September
in the Prosecutor v. Mitar Rasevic, we received a "Motion for Issue
of Warrant of Arrest and Order For Surrender and for Orders Regarding their
Transmission".
Also on 3 September
in the Prosecutor v.Savo Todovic, we received a "Motion for Issue of
Warrant of Arrest and Order For Surrender and for Orders Regarding their Transmission".
Jean-Jacques
Joris, Advisor to the Prosecutor, made no statement.
Questions:
Asked to
comment about a report released yesterday by the Republika Srpska Office for
Cooperation with the ICTY suggesting that Bosnian Muslims had imagined or
fabricated the Srebrenica massacre, Landale replied that he had not yet seen
the report, however that he had seen the media reports as to the contents
of the report. If they were accurate, he would only describe the report as
being outrageous and said that it flew in the face of all of the painstaking
investigation conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor into the events following
the fall of the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995. He continued to say that
it was also important to point out that, specifically, the Krstic Judgement
stated that "the Trial Chamber is satisfied that, in July 1995,
following the take-over of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb forces executed several
thousand Bosnian Muslim men, the total number is likely to be within
the range of 7,000 to 8,000 men". In addition, he mentioned that
throughout the trial, General Krstic and his Defence team did not actually
challenge the death toll as asserted by the Prosecution.
Asked whether
the Tribunal could comment about a story published in Zeri about an Albanian
woman who testified in the Milosevic case and who did not want to return back
to Kosovo and had asked for asylum in the Netherlands, Landale replied that
he would like the journalists to refer to a written response on behalf of
the Registry and the Prosecution. He added that this was a very sensitive
issue, which dealt with protected witnesses and as a result he could not make
any further comments that might jeopardize their safety.
Asked for
an indication on how long the Kosovo part of the Milosevic Trial would last
and whether we could give some clarity about when the Croatia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina part would start, Landale said that he could not be 100% sure,
but said that the feeling was that the Kosovo part would end after a couple
of days next week. If that were to be the case there would be a two week break
before the beginning of Croatia and Bosnia, so we could be looking at around
26 September. Of course this could always change, he added.
Asked to
comment about an article in the Montenegrin daily Dan, which allegedly published
the identity of Witness K41, Landale replied that he could not comment.
Asked whether
Joris could give any names of people testifying at the start of the Croatia
part of the Milosevic trial since the Prosecution would start with the chain
of command, Joris replied he could not disclose any names.
Asked if
there was any information about whether Mr. Holbrooke would testify before
the Tribunal, Joris replied that he had nothing new to say since last week.
The same question was asked about Mr. Lilic to which Joris replied with the
same answer.
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