Order of the President Assigning a Case to a Trial Chamber

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 17 February 1998

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

Miroslav TADIC alias Miro BRKO

Milan SIMIC

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor

Ms. Nancy Peterson
Mr. Vladimir Tochilovsky

Counsel for the Accused

Mr. Igor Pantelic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic

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 Tribunal,

CONSIDERING Article 14 (3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence,

CONSIDERING the interest of the proper and expeditious administration of justice and the equitable distribution among the Trial Chambers of the Tribunal,

HEREBY DECIDE to assign The Prosecutor v. Miroslav Tadic, alias Miro Brko, and Milan Simic, Case Number IT-95-9-I, to Trial Chamber I, composed of Judge Claude Jorda (Presiding), Judge Fouad Riad and Judge Almiro Rodrigues.

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

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

President

Dated this seventeenth day of February 1998

At The Hague,

The Netherlands.

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