'JUSTICE MUST BE ALLOWED TO TAKE ITS COURSE', SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, UPON BEING INFORMED OF INDICTMENT OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC

27 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7008

'JUSTICE MUST BE ALLOWED TO TAKE ITS COURSE', SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, UPON BEING INFORMED OF INDICTMENT OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC

19990527 The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued today by his Spokesman:

The Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Louise Arbour, informed me in person of the Court's decision to indict President Slobodan Milosevic and other officials of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The Tribunal was established by the Security Council. According to its statute, it acts independently. The Prosecutor, therefore, must go where the evidence leads her.

Justice must be allowed to take its course.

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