[ALBSA-Info] Greek courts on International Tribunal of FY

[Agron Alibali]

GHM Note: This is a comment from the coordinator of the political section
of Greece's leading daily, and former president of the Athens Journalists'
Union.

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Not detective, too!

(translated by GHM from the Greek original available at: 
http://www.enet.gr/online/online_p1_text.jsp?c=110&id=43364)

A grave charge has been made by Court of Appeals Prosecutor Athanasios
Kafiris. In a document to Justice Minister Mihalis Stathopoulos, he reveals
that the Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte of the Hague Tribunal is
essentially asking that the [Greek] judicial authorities become "informers"
to the Tribunal in order to create grounds for Slobodan Milosevic's "guilt."

According to the article appearing in yesterday's "Ethnos" daily, the
Prosecutor has written the following to the Minister:

"We wish to express the official opinion that, while Greece certainly is
obliged to provide whatever legal judicial cooperation is requested on the
specific topic, it is unthinkable to demand that this country be used as
though it were an "inestigator" or a potential "detective" for the
International Criminal Court."

What was the Minister's reply?

And, primarily, what actions did he take with the Chief Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court?



NI.K.


ELEFTHEROTYPIA - 14/08/2001    

     


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