KOSOVO: THE INCREASINGLY LIKELY RESIGNATION OF LOUISE ARBOUR, THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, MUST NOT BE A PEARL HARBOUR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL. THE WAR IN KOSOVO DEMANDS THAT CONTINUITY AND THE STRENGTHENING OF THE TRIBUNAL BE GUARANTEED BY NOMINATING THE CURRENT DEPUTY PROSECUTOR, GRAHAM BLEWITT.

Statement of Olivier Dupuis, secretary general of the Transnational Radical Party and Member of the European Parliament.

Brussels-Rome, 19 May 1999. The increasing rumours on the imminent nomination of Louise Arbour at the Canadian Supreme Court, and her resignation from the post of Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as well as the credible reports that the main task of Yugoslav negotiators is to ensure that any peace agreement will include an immunity clause for President Milosevic in respect of the atrocities committed by his forces in Kosovo, demand that the international community, and in particular the Security Council, not spare any effort to ensure the continuity and the strengthening of the capacity of the International Tribunal. The experience and the role played by the current deputy-prosecutor, Graham Blewitt, make him the best candidate available today.

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