Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In advance of the Arab League Summit Meeting — which is being attended by very few heads of state or government — that opened Saturday in Damascus, the UN rushed through several steps in its preparation for the formation of the tribunal to judge those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, Syria, The Hague, UN Secretary-General
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
A spokesperson for UNSG BAN Ki-Moon announced that a headquarters agreement was signed on Friday to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the Netherlands.
The SG said, in the statement issued by the spokesperson, that “The Agreement will now be submitted to the Parliament of the Netherlands for ratification. In the meantime, the United Nations [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, The Hague, UN Security Council
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Despite the strong position taken by the International Court of Justice in the Hague in its July 2004 Advisory Opinion on The Wall, it seems that the idea of Walls has come into fashion. The Saudis are building a high-tech one to keep Iraqis out. The U.S. proposed to wall off its border [...]
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Filed under: International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, The Hague
Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The BBC World Service had the first reports out of the Hague: “The UN’s highest court has cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide in the 1990s Bosnian war. The International Court of Justice was ruling in the first case of a state charged with genocide. If Bosnia’s lawsuit had been successful it [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, International Court of Justice - ICJ, The Hague
Posted on December 15th, 2006 by Marian Houk
The former Swiss prosecutor told the Security Council that a strong message to should be sent to fugitive suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, saying that the United Nations and the Security Council will do everything possibleld to bring them to justice.
The Yugoslavia Tribunal is set to finish all current trials no later than 2009 and the Rwanda Tribunal is [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, The Hague, UN Security Council
Posted on December 8th, 2006 by Marian Houk
The UN News Centre [the UN uses British English spellings] reports that “The Serbian politician who has been on a hunger strike for almost a month as he awaits trial before the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced today that he will resume eating and accept medical treatment now that the court [...]
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