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- 6 luglio 1995
ICTY- Proposta di comunicato stampa (Il segretario deve vedere il testo)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR THE EX-YUGOSLAVIA'S BUDGET URGENTLY NEEDS RESOLUTION BY THE JULY 14, 1995 DEADLINE BY THE FIFTH COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SWIFT ACTION IS IMPERATIVE!

New York- Bruxelles. July 7, 1995

The current impasse on the question of whether the ICTY will be funded by the UN general budget or the peacekeeping budget is holding up the formal approval of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly.

If the question is not resolved, the worst-case outcome is that the ICTY would be shut down. At best, the ICTY will have to operate hand-to-mouth, as it has done so far, putting the Tribunal at the mercy of the U.N., with accountants shuffling money from account to account to keep the Tribunal going.

This situation is recognized as an alarming one by the Transnational Radical Party and other NGOs who have worked very hard for the establishment of the ICTY and who are sending appeals from many countries and cities to the United Nations General Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali and to the Chairman of the Fifth Committee, Ambassador Adrien Teirlinck, urging them to exercise all their diplomatic efforts to bring about a compromise.

U.N. Controller Yukio Takasu had already voiced his concerns as early as April 7, the last day of the Fifth Committee's previous session, about the "precarious situation" and how it "could hamper (the Tribunal's) functioning.

Ironically, potentially serious consequences could stem from a rather trivial difference in terms of money. Since the difference of the percentage that member countries contribute to the U.N. budget and that which the peacekeeping, controlled by the Security Council, contributes results in about $1.7 million for the U.S., $500,000 and $400,000 for France and Britain respectively, and if one compares these amounts to the 1995 budget of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) at $1.67 billion, it becomes clearly evident how small the financial stakes are.

Transnational Radical Party

866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 4014

New York, New York 10017

 
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