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Meron

lines on the record: 42
first: 2003-10-09
most recent: 2004-06-29
sittings or episodes: 2
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“The Registrar of our Tribunal is continuously approaching various Governments, asking them to start negotiations on the conclusion of additional agreements. I would like to use this forum to appeal to Governments to conclude such agreements with the Tribunal. As the number of convicted persons increases, our capacity to find places where they can serve their sentences is definitely not adequate. I believe that I have answered the questions that have been directed to me and I thank the members of the Council for their attention.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“All I would like to say on that subject is this: The more the international community and its members impress on the new Government the benefits and the importance of cooperation with the Tribunal, the better. I think the education of the public is extremely important; the training of the judiciary is also very important. The representative of Spain asked me about progress in negotiating new agreements on the question of where our convicted persons could serve their sentences - the so-called enforcement of sentences agreement. I would like to say that the last agreement which we have concluded - I believe it was the tenth - was an agreement concluded with the United Kingdom, for which we are very grateful to that country.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“All that I wish to say about that - and I take into account the comments made just a few minutes ago by the representative of Serbia and Montenegro on cooperation with the Tribunal being a matter of priority for the new Government in Belgrade - is that there is nothing that I could wish for more than full cooperation between the Government of Serbia and Montenegro and the Tribunal. This cooperation should be in deeds and in acts, and not just in words, and I offer to assist the new Government in any way it considers appropriate in order to serve that important goal. The representative of Germany also asked about what third States can do in order to encourage cooperation between the Government in Belgrade and the Tribunal.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“In my own View, some mechanism will be necessary, but such a mechanism should be a minimalistic one that would not be costly. It must not cost too much money to the United Nations. For instance, one could envisage a panel of judges on whom one can draw when questions come up and who thus would not be actively or remuneratively employed. In other words, they would not be paid for just being on that panel's list, in order to economize on expenses to the United Nations. The representative of Germany asked a question about the victory of Mr. Boris Tadic in Serbia. The members of the Council will, of course, understand that I would not be comfortable commenting on the elections which took place recently.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“More specifically, what do we propose with regard to a mechanism to substitute for existing mechanisms to deal with requests of convicted persons for pardons or commutations of sentence? An additional question pertains, of course, to a review mechanism which now exists under article 26 of the statute. Once the Tribunal has completed its work, it will be necessary to find some kind of a mechanism to deal with those questions. Presently, with regard to pardons and sentences, for example, the procedure lays down that this is up to the President of the Tribunal, after consultation with the bureau and the judges of the Chamber that originally sentenced the convicted person. I think it is too early to create a mechanism to deal with these questions after the completion of the work of the Tribunal.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“This is also a good opportunity to remind the Council again that there will definitely be a need to extend the mandates of individual ad litem judges who will be involved in continuing cases at the time when their mandates, under the existing statute, come to an end in June 2005. It will also be necessary, if I may so suggest, to elect a new list of ad litem judges, just as we will be electing a new list of permanent judges. I have made a commitment to discuss this matter with the Secretary-General and with the Security Council in the fall. The representative of Russia asked me about certain questions which will arise in connection with the winding up of the Tribunal.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Whether the cut-off length of the continuing trial should be six months, as the representative of the United Kingdom suggested, or not is a question on which we would want to reflect a little bit more. There is no question, however, that there is a very strong interest of the international community that judges who have not been re-elected and who are trying a case should be allowed to sit on that case until it is completed. Now, some of the difficulties and dangers of disruption will be attenuated, but not eliminated by the proposal which we, the judges, have made to the Secretary-General and which he has accepted, to advance the elections to November 2004. This would enable us to have a more efficient assignment of judges, based on our knowledge at that time of who will stay on after November 2005 and who will not.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Finally, on this point I would like to draw the attention of the Council to the fact that any speculation regarding the transfer of cases would be dangerous because, in every single case, the decision of whether or not to transfer a case would be made by a panel of judges - by a trial court - which would take into account all the facts, including the underlying rules which I have summarized for the representative of France. I would now like to turn to a question asked by the representative of the United Kingdom with regard to the extension of the mandate of judges whose trials have lasted, at the very least - if I understood him correctly - six months by the time their mandate has expired. I believe that some action along the lines suggested by the United Kingdom will be necessary.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“In addition, may I remind the representative of France of the innovation introduced in the recent amendments of rule 11 bis, which enable us for the first time to transfer cases to jurisdictions outside of the former Yugoslavia when the country concerned has the necessary jurisdiction and when it is ready and willing to accept such cases. This provides a safety valve which can, in due course, be very important, because should there still be some kind of a deficit in due process in the judiciaries of the area itself, we would be able - should countries outside of the area be ready and willing - to transfer cases to those additional jurisdictions and thus help the completion strategy. I salute my colleagues in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, who showed us the way to model our own rule on the rule which they adopted in April.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“The representative of France also asked me about conditions under which we operate, and I would like now to briefly sum them up. The first condition, especially under the amended rule 11 bis, is fairness of the trial and the existence of due process in the receiving country. Then, of course, there is the exclusion of the death penalty. We consider in this context, under rule 11 bis, the gravity of crimes and the level of responsibility. Finally, we should take into account Security Council directives under recent Security Council resolutions which establish the benchmark of seniority. Under those directives, only lower-level and intermediate-level accused can be transferred to national jurisdictions.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“We in the ICTY are very much involved in that training. As regards Serbia and Montenegro, the prospects for the transfer of cases have, of course, been inevitably diminished by the past lack of cooperation between Serbia and Montenegro and the Tribunal. In that context, I would also like to mention the fact that a mission report prepared by the OSCE, based on the monitoring of trials throughout 2003, found that the national judiciary lacked full capacity to conduct war- crimes trials in accordance with universally accepted standards. We in the Tribunal remain committed to assisting Serbia and Montenegro in bringing the judicial bodies in that country up to international standards in terms of their capability to conduct fair war-crimes trials.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“As regards Croatia, as I have pointed out, reports presented recently by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and by the Council of Europe still indicate some continuing problems with regard to due process and fairness, particularly in some instances of persistent bias concerning the ethnic identity of accused and of victims. We in the Tribunal are committed to working with the Government of Croatia to enhance the capability of Croatia's judiciary in order to be able to conduct in Croatia, before long, fair war-crimes trials that take full account of international human rights and due process. There is room for optimism concerning the potential transfer of a limited number of cases to courts in Croatia - courts whose judges and prosecutors have received and continue to receive special training.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“As I pointed out briefly this morning, courtroom facilities should be operational in Sarajevo in January 2005. I voiced my confidence this morning - and I would like to repeat now - that that special chamber in Sarajevo would comply with the entire panoply of due process and human rights. I would like to hope that detention facilities in Sarajevo meeting international standards will be available in January, but if they are not available then, they will be available just a few short months later, so that cases can start moving to Sarajevo from the ICTY very early in 2005 .”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“I would now like to turn to specific questions asked of me and of my colleagues. I will start with the representative of France. The question was, how and when would cases be transferred to national jurisdictions, and under what conditions? As I indicated very briefly in my report this morning, the situation is somewhat different with regard to the several States formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. As regards Bosnia and Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has worked very hard with the Office of the High Representative and with governmental authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to help establish a special war crimes chamber in Sarajevo at the level of the State court that already exists there.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Mr. Meron: I would like at the outset to thank the members of the Council for their support, their comments and their questions. I note in particular comments made with regard to the overarching principle of justice and accountability and to the denial of impunity, and in the context of the target date for the completion strategy. I am also grateful to several members of the Council for their comments regarding the negative and dangerous effects of the current financial freeze. I hope that the membership at large will note the appeals voiced today by members of the Council to the membership at large to pay their arrears as soon as possible. What is involved here is not just a question of a technical payment; it is nothing less than the commitment of our United Nations community to principles of justice.”
2004-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4999Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Our jurisprudence will also supply a foundation for all international criminal courts and a model for national prosecutions of those who commit atrocities.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Ten years ago, the Security Council created the ICTY with the goal of putting an end to impunity for mass atrocities and serious Violations of international humanitarian law. During that decade, with the constant support of the Council, the Tribunal has given victims a chance to see their sufferings recorded and, at least in some measure, to be vindicated. By laying bare the consequences of ethnic and religious hatred, the trials held by the Tribunal have demonstrated the viciousness of those who built up their power by encouraging their followers to embrace such hatred. The Tribunal has thus made a fundamental and lasting contribution to bringing justice to the peoples of the former Yugoslavia.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Particularly as the completion of the Tribunal's work comes into sight, it will be more and more difficult to retain and attract staff of the highest calibre, unless opportunities for advancement or continuation of service within the United Nations are made available. The establishment of additional criminal jurisdictions creates additional pressure in this regard. I hope the members of the Council - and the members of the General Assembly - will recognize the importance of this issue and support our proposals to address it. The mission of the Tribunal has been to try, not all of those who have committed violations of international humanitarian law, but those most responsible for major atrocities. That mission will not be completed until we have tried, in particular, Mladic and Karadzic.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“But, even as I express my commitment to do everything possible, through continuing reforms of procedure and trial management practices, to improve the speed and efficiency of our proceedings, I must also remind the Council that in criminal trials speed cannot be purchased at the price of sacrificing the demands of due process. The legacy of the Tribunal will be measured not only by whether it succeeds in judging those responsible for the most serious crimes falling within its jurisdiction, but also by whether it does so in accordance with the strictest standards of fairness. Ensuring that those standards are met requires skilful work, not only by our judges, but also by our staff.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“One thing must be clear, however: once indictments have been submitted and confirmed by the judges, the legal process will have started, and it will have to run its course in accordance with the governing law and the demands of due process. A strict application of the target dates for the completion strategy must not - I repeat, must not i result in impunity, particularly for the most senior leaders suspected of being most responsible for the crimes within the Tribunal's jurisdiction. I realize that some members of the Council will find these projections sobering.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“The matter is clearly between the Council and the Prosecutor. The Tribunal's mandate is to try persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during the Yugoslav conflicts. In resolution 1503 (2003), the Council did not spell out the goals to be achieved during the sunset months of the Prosecutor's investigatory functions. Clearly, the Prosecutor will thus submit additional indictments, which, according to our present calculations, will inevitably cause a significant additional slippage in the target dates of the completion strategy - perhaps as much as two years beyond what it would take to try the fugitives who are delivered to The Hague. Of course, once the Prosecutor comes to the end of the investigatory phase of her work, we will be in a much better position to make projections with confidence.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Thus, I must tell the Council that, based on our present projections, it will not be possible to accommodate any of these new indictments within the timeframe indicated by the Council. I say this recognizing fully that it is the Prosecutor's prerogative to select the individuals against whom she will file indictments, and recognizing that if the Prosecution has sufficient evidence to make a prima facie case, we judges must confirm the indictments. Pursuant to the Statute and Security Council resolutions, including resolution 1503 (2003), it is not within judicial authority to assess whether the subjects of each of these new indictments meet the standard set by this Council of being the most senior leaders suspected of being most responsible for crimes within the ICTY's jurisdiction.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“While four or five of the new indictments will involve individuals whose cases can be joined to existing ones, eight or nine of these indictments will require separate trials. Here is the problem. By setting 2004 as the end of the Prosecutor's mandate to investigate, the Security Council clearly expected her to produce some results, including new indictments. It may well be that future indictments will in fact target persons more senior and more responsible than persons who have been indicted in the past. But, as I appear before the Council today as President of the Tribunal to report for the first time on the Tribunal's overall activities, it is my duty to be absolutely candid and transparent about how these cases, like those I have described earlier, fit into the calendar established by this Council.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“During my recent visit to Belgrade, I was encouraged by an emerging understanding that cooperation with the Tribunal is both necessary and desirable, but much remains to be done on arrests of fugitives, access to evidence, and facilitation of witness testimony, especially by present and former officials. The Prosecutor has some role to play in the second of these considerations - the number of guilty pleas. The third - the number of cases transferred to the Sarajevo war crimes chamber - depends on how quickly the Chamber becomes operational. I have recently learned from the Prosecutor that she intends to submit approximately 14 additional indictments covering approximately a further 30 individuals.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“In short, the sooner fugitives are turned in, the greater the number of guilty pleas received, or the greater the number of cases that can be transferred to Sarajevo, the sooner we will be able to finish the trials of these cases. The first of these considerations - the handing over of fugitives - is, of course, outside the Tribunal's control. It depends above all on the cooperation of the States of the former Yugoslavia. Ijoin my predecessors in urging this Council to press all Member States to cooperate fully and promptly with the Tribunal's work.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Our estimate on this count depends on predictions not only about the likely length of the various trials, but also about the timing of the arrest and transfer of these fugitives to The Hague, the number of guilty pleas received and the number of cases to be transferred to the new war crimes chamber in Sarajevo. The sooner fugitives arrive, the better are the chances of joining their cases to those of individuals already at The Hague, thus avoiding the greater time and expense that separate trials would require. How many of the 17 fugitives from justice, and how many of those already in the Tribunal's custody, will plead guilty cannot, of course, be predicted. A large number of guilty pleas could attenuate our present estimates.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“It may be possible to complete the cases of two of the three fugitives whom the Council has identified as being of the highest priority - Karadzic and Mladic - within the 2008 deadline, assuming that they are tried together and brought into custody early enough to allow time for such long trials to be held within the target dates set by the Security Council. If there is an unexpected surge in guilty pleas, it may even be possible to complete the trials of some of the other indicted fugitives within the 2008 goal, but it will not be possible to complete all of them by that time. Trying the cases of all the fugitives without additional guilty pleas would probably require trials at least through 2009.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Let me now give the Council a summary of those estimates, as of today. I am pleased to report that we should be able to complete the trials of all individuals currently in the custody of the Tribunal, including those on provisional release - both individuals whose trials have already begun and individuals who are in pre-trial proceedings - within the 2008 deadline. There are 22 cases in these categories. Already confirmed indictments cover an additional 17 individuals who are at large. It will take 11 trials to handle the cases of these fugitives.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“I must report that, while we are striving in every way possible to meet the goal of completing all trials by the end of 2008 and all appeals by the end of 2010, one cannot predict the completion date of judicial proceedings with scientific accuracy. Many factors may affect the outcome. Some of those influences are within the control of the Tribunal, others not; of the former, some are within the control of the judges and others within the power of the Prosecutor. Shortly after I became President of the Tribunal, I formed a working group composed of representatives from the Chambers, the Registry and the Prosecution in order to improve the efficiency with which trials are scheduled. I have also asked this group to make careful projections of the time required to complete our trials, based on a range of assumptions.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“I have revitalized a committee of judges called the Judicial Practices Working Group, giving it a mandate to develop and analyse proposals to shorten trials and speed the hearing of appeals. The Prosecutor has recently circulated a group of proposals with the same goal in mind and the judges are actively considering and reshaping a number of them. The Rules Committee of the judges has some of these proposals under active consideration. The Committee will recommend a package of reforms aimed at improving the rules of disclosure, pretrial management and presentation of evidence to the judges' regular plenary meeting in December. The purpose is to balance the interests of the Prosecutor and the accused so that the task of the former is manageable while the rights of the latter to a fair trial remain protected.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“In anticipation of the Chamber's creation, the ICTY judges amended rule 11 bis at a special plenary in September 2002 to set out the criteria that must be satisfied before a case may be referred to a domestic court once an indictment has been confirmed. I would also note that, during my first official visit - the first official visit of the Tribunal's President - to Belgrade in September, I visited the premises and met with the judges and the prosecutor of the new war crimes chamber established in Serbia. As the region moves towards normality, State courts should assume a major role in bringing offenders to account, but they can do so only if they are not used for political ends and if they meet international standards of due process and fair trial. I can report that we are continuing to search for ways to streamline our procedures.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Another gives the Trial Chambers enhanced authority to restrict the scope of the prosecution's case by, for example, limiting the time and the number of witnesses and the number of crime sites, thus avoiding the presentation of duplicative and unnecessarily time- consuming evidence. Externally, the past year has seen a major advance for the completion strategy through the advancement of a plan to create a special war crimes chamber in the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As I noted in addressing the Council yesterday with Lord Ashdown, the establishment of the war crimes chamber in Sarajevo will provide a forum to which the Tribunal may transfer a number of cases of lower- and mid-level accused.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“At my urging, and in accord with an earlier recommendation by my predecessor, Judge Claude Jorda, on 19 May 2003 the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1481 (2003), amending the Tribunal's Statute to permit ad litem judges to undertake pre-trial work. That reform enables ad litem judges to make even more efficient use of their time and to enhance their already important contribution to the work of the Tribunal, thus helping it to try cases to completion more expeditiously. At plenary meetings in December 2002 and July 2003, the Tribunal's judges adopted a number of amendments to its rules of procedure designed to improve efficiency. One revises the methods for permitting the continuation of trials when one of the judges hearing the case is unable to continue, thereby reducing the likelihood of mistrials and retrials.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“The time and resources saved by avoiding trials in some cases both contributes significantly to the Tribunal's ability to meet the deadlines indicated by the Security Council for the completion of its work and enables those in detention to have their cases heard more quickly. Guilty pleas could also bring to the Victims a faster sense of the Vindication ofjustice. With those deadlines in mind, let me turn to addressing the Tribunal's completion strategy. First, I can report that during the past year we have made major strides in carrying out that strategy. Internally, we have undertaken a series of judicially initiated reforms designed to improve the efficiency of our proceedings. The most important was the removal of the ban on ad litem judges adjudicating in pre-trial proceedings.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“But I believe that, with properly detailed acknowledgement by defendants of their participation in the crimes for which they acknowledge guilt and with genuine expressions of remorse, plea agreements can play a constructive role. In some cases, a forthright and specific acknowledgement of guilt may offer victims as much consolation as, or even more than would a conviction following repeated protestations of innocence. Moreover, as a practical matter, the cooperation secured through plea agreements plays an important role in securing convictions of more important participants in large-scale crimes.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“During the period under consideration, it disposed of 36 interlocutory appeals, two requests for review and two contempt proceedings, and handed down one appeal from judgement. The Trial Chambers also received an increasing number of guilty pleas resulting from plea agreements, including from Biljana Plavsic, former Co-President of the Republika Srpska. A total of 16 defendants have now pleaded guilty at the Tribunal. I recognize that because of the egregious nature of the crimes charged before it, and because the Tribunal's roles include providing some vindication for victims and contributing to the creation of an accurate record of terrible atrocities, some are hesitant about a too frequent resort to plea agreements. These concerns are legitimate.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“The trial of Slobodan Milosevic, former Head of State of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, continued before Trial Chamber III. The defendant's health has led to a great number of delays, and it is an extremely complex case. It brings together what had been three separate indictments - for Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia - with 66 counts, hundreds of witnesses and tens of thousands of pages of documents, most of which must be translated from Serbo-Croatian into English and French, the Tribunal's working languages. But the prosecution's case is coming to a close soon, and the timetable for the defence case has begun to be established. The Appeals Chamber, too, has disposed of a greater number of appeals than in years past.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Of the 44 defendants tried, five, from three different trials, have been acquitted. As important as the Tribunal's ability to reach careful judgements of guilt for the terrible crimes within its jurisdiction, one of the essential tests of its fairness and legitimacy has been its insistence on acquitting defendants when the prosecution has failed to meet its burden of proof. This past year the pace of our activities has reached an all-time high. The Tribunal continues to honour the commitments it made to the Security Council. With morning and afternoon sessions in its three courtrooms, its Trial Chambers conduct between four and six trials at a time. During the year under review, the Chambers examined 29 merits cases, as well as three cases of contempt, and rendered four final judgements on the merits or sentencing judgements.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“But, if with painful slowness at first, with growing confidence and efficiency the Tribunal has helped bring to account a considerable number of accused of high rank. The Tribunal represents an enormous experiment in international cooperation and institution-building. It has 16 permanent judges from 16 countries and nine ad litem judges from a further eight nations. The judges sit in three Trial Chambers, with a total of nine three- judge benches, and one Appeals Chamber. The Tribunal has held, or is holding, 28 trials involving 44 defendants, with another 31 defendants currently in pre-trial proceedings. A further 16 defendants - 16 as of yesterday - have pleaded guilty. After nearly 10 years in operation, the Tribunal's Chambers have handed down hundreds of decisions.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“It would also help to create an impartial record of atrocities committed during the Yugoslav conflict. It would offer victims a sense that their suffering had been recognized. And, by doing all of those things, it would contribute to reconciliation and reconstruction in the republics of the former Yugoslavia. It has been our task, to use a phrase of Justice Robert Jackson, the United States Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg, to "patiently and temperately disclose" the record of the crimes that scarred the Balkans in the 19905 and devastated hundreds of thousands of lives. The vast scale of those crimes - the murders, rapes and deportations and the acts of torture, destruction and cruelty - would dwarf the capacity of any single court to bring about more than a very partial reckoning.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“In Security Council resolution 1503 (2003) of 28 August 2003, the Council expressly called on the Presidents of the ICTY and ICTR to use their annual reports to explain their plans for implementation of the Tribunals' completion strategy. Heeding that instruction, I will devote much of my statement today to the ICTY completion strategy. But before turning to those questions I would like to review briefly some of the Tribunal's activities during the last year, and, as we have reached its tenth anniversary, I would like to place those activities in the context of the Tribunal's accomplishments during its entire decade of life. Ten years ago, in resolution 827 (1993), the Security Council brought the Tribunal into being. It did so in the hope that the Tribunal would do more than simply mete out justice to individual wrongdoers.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source
“Mr. Meron: It is a great honour for me to address this distinguished Council to present the tenth annual report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Let me first express my profound appreciation to the Council for the support it has always afforded the Tribunal. If I may speak in a personal capacity, I am particularly pleased to address the Council under the presidency of Ambassador Negroponte. Let me also pay tribute to the wisdom and dedication of my predecessor as President of the Tribunal, Judge Claude Jorda of France. Judge Jorda served as President of the Tribunal during much of the period upon which I report to you today.”
2003-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4838 (2003) · source