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Thanks for the helpful information. Any idea why Russia did not veto the
ICTY?
FWP
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Dear Party of Citizens,
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> the ICTY is not the same as the International Criminal Court (ICC) created in Rome
>in 1998. The ICC, in fact, has yet to be officially inaugurated as it lacks the
>proper number of ratifications for the treaty to enter into force.
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> The ICTY should also not be confused with the ICJ (International Court of Justice),
>which was designed to adjudicate disputes between states and in front of which
>Yugoslavia brought a complaint against NATO states for their aggression in 1999 (the
>case was apparently dropped by the new NATO-backed authorities in Yugoslavia).
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> So what is the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)?
>Good question. The ICTY was created in 1993 as an ad-hoc creation of the United
>Nations Security Council (UNSC) in violation of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 the UN
>Charter, which empowers the UNSC only to create subsidiary organs. The ICTY however
>is an organ of the UN that over-rides state sovereignty in the persecution of
>individuals, is open-ended and was never ratified by the members of the UN General
>Assembly. Thus the ICTY is of dubious legal identity as an international court since
>it was created without the approval of UN member states, but was an adhoc creation of
>the UNSC under dubious circumstances.
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> This is the difference between the various courts, hope this helped.
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> Cheers!
>
> Kole
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