Arrest of Fugitives

Army deserters confirm that rapes have occurred.

The fugitives must be transferred to Arusha and The Hague forthwith.

The Tribunal continues to make steady progress in apprehending fugitives.

One of these fugitives, Milan Lukić, is in the custody of the Argentine authorities.

Our medical teams are also currently responding to the crisis of refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Sudan. These are staunch reminders that despite independence, acute emergencies are still all too present in South Sudan and the capacity for emergency humanitarian response remains an absolute priority.

They explained that the last three camps were set up to house people fleeing the effects of the droughts.

The proportion of fleeing Afghans who have been granted asylum in European countries remains small.

A primary topic of discussion was Serbia's failure to deliver to the Tribunal the remaining fugitives.

Local communities are now also taking it upon themselves to create a safe place for domestic violence refugees.

One of the remaining problems, aside from the fugitives, is the missing wartime archives of Republika Srpska.

As part of the Completion Strategy, the Prosecutor has formulated a more aggressive programme for tracking and apprehension of fugitives.

(d) Member States assist and cooperate in the arrest and transfer of accused and suspects who remain at large.

The last time a fugitive indicted by the ICTY was arrested by the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina was in July 2002.

What are a country s obligations to refugees fleeing from persecution, poverty, or strife elsewhere?

The police arrested Hadjiev again in 2002, in response to a Turkmen extradition request.

The Tribunal simply cannot close its doors until these fugitives have been tried.

Of primary importance is the trial of the Tribunal's three most notorious fugitives Karadzić, Mladić and Gotovina.

Five of these persons remain at large and are included in the nineteen fugitives mentioned above (para.

The Jordanian United States Extradition Treaty, published in the Official Gazette No. 4055 of 16 July 1995.

For that reason, my delegation supports the Prosecutor's efforts to visit Member States to seek political cooperation in the arrest and the transfer of fugitives.

But the numbers of children escaping the violence are rising every day and we re facing a refugee crisis which is set to get worse.

In conclusion, allow me to emphasize once again that it is crucial that the Tribunal not close its doors until all remaining fugitives are tried.

The tracking and apprehension of fugitives nonetheless continues to be a major challenge for the ICTR.

The military shelled the area and machine gunned those in flight some were captured and shot and killed.

Therefore, arrest operations must be carried out, which are considered by the various authorities as risky both politically and operationally.

Once enacted the law should remedy those areas where based on the review of the Bahamas responses to terrorism in the Self Assessment Survey completed in 2002 the FATF found partial compliance with six of the Eight Special Recommendations, non compliance with one and the non applicability of one recommendation.

Third, it has to be reminded that the arrest of ICTY fugitives is an obligation of all States.

The disastrous situation will only intensify the current stream of people fleeing from Zimbabwe, adding new burdens to the neighbouring countries.

Since our last meeting, we have received some good news the arrest of Ante Gotovina, one of the four fugitives referred to by name in Council resolutions.

In particular, we were very pleased to note the virtually unanimous opinion of Security Council members that everyone needs to apprehend the fugitives at large.

By December 1978, due to several years of border conflict and the flood of refugees fleeing Kampuchea, relations between Cambodia and Vietnam collapsed.

It is crucial that the message and legacy of the Tribunal not be lost by a closing of its doors without all remaining fugitives being tried.

In 1994, Sheikh Hassan opened a private museum, and started helping and sponsoring artists from the region, especially Iraqis fleeing the Gulf War.

About six single accused trials could commence, including trials of the indictees at large, as well as of those who have been recently indicted.

He even went to the border town of Amritsar and pleaded with Hindu and Sikh mobs to stop victimizing Muslim refugees fleeing to the new Islamic state of Pakistan.

Since the submission of the last report, the number of remaining fugitives has been reduced from ten to seven with the arrest of three indictees.

Most of the Europeans immigrated in the 20th century, during the First and the Second World War (1939 1945) and the Cold War (1945 1990) as well fleeing the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.

Throughout the past 30 years, there have been a growing number of refugees fleeing Iraq and settling throughout the world, peaking recently with the latest Iraq War.

First, the seven remaining fugitives are less likely to accept to surrender voluntarily than the accused who were transferred in the first part of this year.

The Prosecutor expects the relevant States to intensify the collection of reliable intelligence on their whereabouts so as to be able to launch successful arrest operations.

The Prosecutor has also visited a number of Member States of the United Nations with a view to securing their political support and cooperation for the arrest and transfer of fugitives.

India gave asylum to fleeing students and a base for their resistance movement (along with some financial help), and supported a newspaper and a radio station that propagated the democratic voice.

And just about the last thing the EU needs is an influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing poverty, political repression, and despair in Moldova and other countries of the former Soviet Union.

We call for continued efforts to apprehend the key remaining fugitives, especially Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, and to arrest Félicien Kabuga and transfer him to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).