>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > >http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=222890 > > >Envoy Calls for "Independence, Impartiality" in UN >Yugoslav Tribunals > >UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22, 2000 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text >of report in English by official Chinese news agency >Xinhua (New China News Agency). > >China said here Tuesday [21st November] that >independence and impartiality are of "paramount >importance" for the International Criminal Tribunal >for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in carrying out its >function under relevant UN resolutions. > >The statement came as Wang Yingfan, the Chinese >permanent representative to the United Nations, took >the floor at an open UN Security Council meeting on >the ICTY. > >As an international criminal justice institution >established by the Security Council, the tribunal's >independence and impartiality are of paramount >importance, Wang said. > >In creating the ad hoc tribunal, the 15-member >Security Council has two goals, he said. "On the one >hand, they are to conduct fair trials of persons >responsible for serious violations of international >humanitarian law. They are to render justice to >victims of the crimes in question while helping >prevent perpetration of similar atrocities in future." > >"On the other hand, they are to facilitate peace and >reconciliation in the regions concerned," he said. > >"Important progress has been made in many aspects of >the tribunal's work," he said. "Meanwhile, we have >found considerable inadequacies in the operation of >the tribunal." > >"We have serious reservations about the ICTY >prosecutor's conclusion that there are no basis for >opening an investigation into any allegations of >crimes of serious violations of international >humanitarian law during NATO's bombings of the Federal >Republic of Yugoslavia," he said. > >Without the authorization of the Security Council, >which has the primary responsibility for the >maintenance of world peace and security, NATO began >78-day air strikes on Yugoslavia in March last year. > >Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in English 2057 >GMT 21 Nov 00 > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. >http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
