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Security Council splits prosecutorial duties for Rwanda, Yugoslavia tribunals, unanimously adopting resolution 1503 (2003).

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 August 2003-UN: Security Council splits prosecutorial duties for Rwanda, Yugoslavia tribunals, unanimously adopting resolution 1503 (2003)(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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The Security Council this morning decided to split the prosecutorial duties for the criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, which to date had been the responsibility of a single official, currently Carla Del Ponte.

Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council, through the unanimous adoption of resolution 1503 (2003), amended Article 15 of the Rwanda Tribunal's Statute and replaced it with the provision set out in Annex I to the resolution, which creates a new position of Prosecutor and describes the process of appointment.

The Secretary-General has already informed the Council of his intention to nominate and, thus, maintain Ms. Del Ponte as Prosecutor of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, with his nominee for the Rwanda Tribunal to follow in due course. In the interim, Rwanda duties will be assumed by the current Deputy Prosecutor.

Outlining the timetable for the completion of the courts' work, the Council called on the Tribunals to take all possible measures to complete investigations by the end of 2004, to complete all trial activities (at first instance) by the end of 2008, and to complete all work in 2010 (the Completion Strategies).

The Council also called on all States, especially Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on the Republika Srpska within Bosnia and Herzegovina, to intensity cooperation with and render all necessary assistance to the Yugoslavia Tribunal. It...

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