Order of the President for the Assignment of a Judge in the Appeals Chamber

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 19 May 1998

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

MILAN KOVACEVIC

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE
IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Grant Niemann
Mr. Michael Keegan
Mrs. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Morten Bergsmo

Counsel for the accused:

Mr. Dusan Vucicevic
Mr. Anthony D’Amato

I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, 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"),

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal,

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute and Rule 27 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY DECIDE to vacate my Order of 29 April 1998, that assigned Judge Fouad Abdel-Monem Riad to the Appeals Chamber as a substitute for Judge Wang Tieya to determine this appeal.

The Appeals Chamber in case IT-97-24-AR73, the Prosecutor v. Milan Kovacevic, will then be composed as follows:

Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Judge Wang Tieya

Judge Rafael Nieto Navia

Judge Almiro Simôes Rodrigues

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

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

President

Dated this nineteenth day of May 1998

At The Hague,

The Netherlands.

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