As a result, more recent international instruments call on States parties to punish money laundering arising from all or most serious offences.

The Serious Crimes Unit has met with communities in 12 districts to inform them of the closure of the serious crimes process and of the progress achieved to date.

Meanwhile, the Serious Crimes Unit, the Defence Lawyers Unit and the Special Panels for serious crimes are finalizing the laborious process of handing over all relevant documentation related to the serious crimes process to the Timorese authorities.

A total of six serious crimes cases were heard by the Court of Appeal.

States did not have a responsibility to protect people from serious crimes but rather a responsibility not to commit them.

(d) How the Statute would confer jurisdiction over serious crimes with an international character.

Stipulates that serious criminal offences are prosecuted ex proprio motu.

Most techniques have both kinds of serious errors, to varying degrees.

Since my last report, the Serious Crimes Unit has made significant progress towards achieving justice for crimes committed in 1999.

While Article 6 does not prohibit the death penalty, it restricts its application to the most serious crimes and forbids it to be used on children and pregnant women or in a manner contrary to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Programme I Support for the public administration and justice system of Timor Leste and for justice in the area of serious crimes

Support for the public administration and justice system of Timor Leste and for justice in the area of serious crimes

The link between the smuggling of natural resources and other types of serious crime, such as corruption and terrorism, was also underscored.

Each State party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature.

In this connection, the Commission of Experts wrote to me on 29 April, to request that the liquidation of the Serious Crimes Unit be suspended and that measures be considered to safeguard the institutional knowledge of the serious crimes process until the findings of the Commission have been submitted and the Security Council has had a chance to consider them.

Notwithstanding these developments, the world today is still beset by violence and other forms of serious crime.

The offences of terrorism and related acts are introduced into the category of serious offences, making it impossible for release on bail to be granted.

Although 5 of the 22 judges were authorized by the Superior Council of the Judiciary to continue exercising their functions to allow the serious crimes and National Electoral Commission processes to be completed, the majority of national judges will have to cease the exercise of their judiciary functions, which will result in complete reliance on international judges for both criminal and civil cases.

While the scope of that Convention does not extend beyond drug related offences, it established a legal framework that has served as the basis for policy development in the area of serious crime prevention.

Mr. Mehlis is a Senior Public Prosecutor for the State of Berlin and has substantial experience in investigating serious and complex crimes.

Furthermore, for the majority of them, conspiracy, preparation and attempt are criminalized.

Subsequently, international standards and frameworks first developed under the Convention have been extended to apply to all serious crimes.

In this process, the ICTR will establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, bring justice to victims of the massive crimes that were committed and establish a record of facts that can aid reconciliation in Rwanda.

Also addressed were the continuing requirements for enhancing transparency and accountability, the future of the serious crimes process and the need to support marginalized groups.

The Serious Crimes Unit, the Defence Lawyers Unit and the Special Panels are preparing the handover of necessary materials to the relevant Timorese authorities.

Tanzania is a State party to the International Criminal Court a Court established to bring to justice those accused of genocide and other serious crimes against humanity.

Council members are appalled by the serious crimes committed in Darfur in violation of international law, described in the report of the International Commission of Inquiry.

Azerbaijan stated that its domestic law required involvement of an organized criminal group for purposes of the offences established in accordance with article 5, paragraph 1 (a) (i), and covered all serious crimes involving organized criminal groups.

Considering the number of serious crimes it is inevitable to impose death penalty to the offenders who commit such crimes. Morocco responded that the reason why capital punishment had not been abolished for ordinary crimes was the gravity of certain criminal acts and brutality and hideousness of other acts as well .

In addition, the Serious Crimes Unit provides training to 21 national police officers and 12 national lawyers and technical staff.

The indictments filed by the Serious Crimes Unit cover 572 of the estimated 1,400 murders committed in 1999.

Most States replying for the third reporting period (71 per cent, compared with 75 per cent for the second and 62 for the first) had adopted measures for the freezing, seizure or confiscation of proceeds of serious crimes other than drug trafficking.

Chile also stated that its legislation covered all serious crimes involving organized criminal groups and did not require an act in furtherance of the agreement for purposes of the offences established in accordance with article 5, paragraph 1 (a) (i).

Criminologists have shown, statistically, that in US states where convicts are executed, serious crimes have not diminished.

Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1543 (2004), the United Nations support for the serious crimes process in its current form is to cease on 20 May 2005.

In any event, the Organized Crime Convention and United Nations Convention against Corruption call upon States parties to include a broad range of serious crimes as predicate offences.

Elaboration of information programmes that explain the importance of surrendering weapons, considered as something uncivilized and a primary factor in the perpetration of most crimes

What was even more appalling was that often the competent authorities did nothing by way of investigating those crimes and punishing the perpetrators.

Crime statistics show a positive trend. Low levels of serious crimes against members of minority communities are reported two Kosovo Albanians are on trial for the only case of murder of a Kosovo Serb since March 2004.

Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1543 (2004), the Serious Crimes Unit, the Defence Lawyers Unit and the Special Panels for serious crimes concluded all activities on 20 May 2005, as the UNMISET mandate came to an end.

In the light of the new legislation and the reduction in the number of capital offences, she wondered whether any persons convicted under the old legislation had been given more liberal sentences.

A number of cases, which have been referred to the Serious Crimes Unit by the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, involve serious crimes and are thus deemed unsuitable for reconciliation processes.

As directed by the Security Council in paragraph 8 of its resolution 1543 (2004), the Serious Crimes Unit ended all investigations on 30 November 2004.

It is thus essential that all those responsible for the serious crimes committed in 1999 be held accountable, and that justice be done in the appropriate manner.

Its task would be to conduct a thorough assessment of the progress made in the processes involving the Ad Hoc Human Rights Tribunal in Jakarta, on the one hand, and the Serious Crimes Unit and the Special Panels for serious crimes in Dili, on the other, and to make appropriate recommendations to me.