Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Dear Party of Citizens, the ICTY is not the same as the International Criminal Court (ICC) created in Rome in 1998. The ICC, in fact, has yet to be officially inaugurated as it lacks the proper number of ratifications for the treaty to enter into force. The ICTY should also not be confused with the ICJ (International Court of Justice), which was designed to adjudicate disputes between states and in front of which Yugoslavia brought a complaint against NATO states for their aggression in 1999 (the case was apparently dropped by the new NATO-backed authorities in Yugoslavia). So what is the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)? Good question. The ICTY was created in 1993 as an ad-hoc creation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in violation of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 the UN Charter, which empowers the UNSC only to create subsidiary organs. The ICTY however is an organ of the UN that over-rides state sovereignty in the persecution of individuals, is open-ended and was never ratified by the members of the UN General Assembly. Thus the ICTY is of dubious legal identity as an international court since it was created without the approval of UN member states, but was an adhoc creation of the UNSC under dubious circumstances. This is the difference between the various courts, hope this helped. Cheers! Kole ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
