Lavrov meets with Hague prosecutor

Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz met in Moscow yesterday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

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Wednesday, 02.07.2008.

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Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz met in Moscow yesterday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The two discussed the strategy for concluding the work of the Hague Tribunal. Lavrov meets with Hague prosecutor Brammertz’s spokeswoman Olga Kavran confirmed that this was the first visit by a Hague chief prosecutor to Moscow for talks with Russian officials. She said that Brammertz and Lavrov had also discussed “ongoing issues.” According to the strategy for concluding the Tribunal’s work adopted by the UN Security Council, the Tribunal is due to wrap up all first instance cases by the end of this year, and all appeals by 2010. Russia has insisted within the Security Council that these time frames be respected. In reports to the UN Security Council, Tribunal President Fausto Pocar has stated on a number of occasions that first-instance trials will continue into next year, and has asked the international community for its support. According to Kavran, Brammertz is in Moscow meeting with Brammertz “as part of regular contact with members of the UN Security Council.” Serge Brammertz (www.un.org)

Lavrov meets with Hague prosecutor

Brammertz’s spokeswoman Olga Kavran confirmed that this was the first visit by a Hague chief prosecutor to Moscow for talks with Russian officials. She said that Brammertz and Lavrov had also discussed “ongoing issues.”

According to the strategy for concluding the Tribunal’s work adopted by the UN Security Council, the Tribunal is due to wrap up all first instance cases by the end of this year, and all appeals by 2010.

Russia has insisted within the Security Council that these time frames be respected.

In reports to the UN Security Council, Tribunal President Fausto Pocar has stated on a number of occasions that first-instance trials will continue into next year, and has asked the international community for its support.

According to Kavran, Brammertz is in Moscow meeting with Brammertz “as part of regular contact with members of the UN Security Council.”

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