Order of the President assigning a Judge to a Trial Chamber

THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL

Before: Judge Claude Jorda, President of the Tribunal

Registrar: Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of: 15 March 2001

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

BLAGOJE SIMIC
MILAN SIMIC
MIROSLAV TADIC
SIMO ZARIC

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
ASSIGNING A JUDGE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Graham Blewitt

Mr. Grant Niemann

Defence Counsel:

Mr. Slobodan Zecevic for Milan Simic

Mr. Igor Pantelic for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic for Simo Zaric

I, Claude Jorda, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (hereinafter "the Tribunal"),

NOTING the appointment of Judge Mohamed El Habib Fassi Fihri by the United Nations Secretary-General pursuant to Article 13(3) of the Statute of the Tribunal (hereinafter "the Statute"),

NOTING that Judge Mohamed Bennouna resigned on 28 February 2001,

PURSUANT to Article 14(C) of the Statute and Rule 27 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal,

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS,

APPOINT Judge Mohamed El Habib Fassi Fihri to Trial Chamber III to replace Judge Mohamed Bennouna,

CONFIRM that, in the proceedings against Simic et al (case no. IT-95-9-PT), Trial Chamber III shall be composed as follows:

Judge Patrick Robinson

Judge David Hunt

Judge Mohamed El Habib Fassi Fihri

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

Done this fifteenth day of March 2001
At The Hague

The Netherlands

(signed)
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Claude Jorda
President

[Seal of the Tribunal]