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SOURCE: UNTV
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DATELINE: 15 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
15 JUNE, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan right, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Lipton Robinson, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY):
“How can the principal organ of a body like the United Nations – the General Assembly – adopt a resolution, unambiguous in language and purpose, and on the basis of which constituent bodies such as the Tribunal make plans, only to be told by the budgetary authorities in New York that the resolution does not mean what it clearly says? The Tribunal has been severely prejudiced by this misstep in the United Nations organization.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Byron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR):
“The international community has unfortunately not made progress with regard to our biggest remaining task, the arrest of the remaining eleven fugitives. I am convinced that we all agree that eleven fugitives are not an acceptable legacy to leave to the residual mechanism as the Tribunal prepares to finalize its trial activities by the end of next year.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY):
“The arrest of the fugitives Mladic and Hadzic remains the highest priority for my office. Since my last report, operational services in Serbia continued their efforts to search for the fugitives. However, these efforts have thus far produced few tangible results. We therefore strongly believe that Serbia’s current operational strategies need to be reviewed.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. Hassan Jallow, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR):
“Despite the copious evidence of Kabuga’s entry, residence, activities and occasional reported sightings of him in that country, Kenya has neither arrester him nor provided the information requested by the prosecutor to assist in the tracking and arrest of this fugitive.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. Wide shot, Brammertz and Jallow walk to the stakeout microphone
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY):
“It is really our very strong belief that he is of course still hiding in the region and that this justifies those ongoing operations. I have said also to the Security Council that the arrest of the two remaining fugitives, among them Mladic is the highest priority for our office and the message must be very clear that there can be no alternative to his arrest.”
13. Wide shot, Brammertz and Jallow walk away from the stakeout microphone
The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Patrick Robinson, today (18 June) made an impassioned plea to the Security Council to help the tribunal retain experienced staff, saying they were massively leaving their jobs after finding employment elsewhere because their contracts with ICTY, as currently structured, did not offer them the incentive to remain in the tribunal.
Robinson questioned how the General Assembly could adopt a resolution, “unambiguous in language and purpose” in relation to the staffing of the Tribunal “only to be told by the budgetary authorities in New York that the resolution does not mean what it clearly says.”
He added that the Tribunal “has been severely prejudiced by this misstep in the United Nations organization.”
The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Dennis Byron, in his address to the Council also expressed concern over budgeting and staffing issues, singling out staff departure to seek employment elsewhere as one of the main challenges to the tribunal’s efforts to complete its work on schedule.
He brought to the attention of the Council the need to provide victims of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia compensation to enable them to rebuild their lives.
He also noted that as the Tribunal prepares to finalize its trial activities by the end of 2011, there needs to be progress in the arrest of the remaining eleven fugitives. He said they are not “an acceptable legacy to leave to the residual mechanism” of the Tribunal.
Serge Brammertz told the Council that the arrest of the fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic “remains the highest priority” for his office, and questioned Serbian efforts to apprehend them, saying that they “have thus far produced few tangible results.”
ICTR Prosecutor Hassan Jallow, expressed concern regarding its efforts to track and bring to justice fugitive genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, whom the court has alleged is likely to be still hiding in Kenya.
He said that “despite the copious evidence of Kabuga’s entry, residence, activities and occasional reported sightings of him in that country, Kenya has neither arrester him nor provided the information requested by the prosecutor to assist in the tracking and arrest of this fugitive.”
Speaking to reporters outside the Council, Brammertz reiterated that the arrest of Mladic and Hadžic, was the highest priority for his office and expressed a “very strong belief” that Mladic is alive and “still hiding in the region” making clear that “there can be no alternative to his arrest.”
The Presidents and Prosecutors of both Criminal Tribunals were updating the Council on recent developments in their investigations, courtroom proceedings, member states’ cooperation, as well as their respective offices’ completion strategies.
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