Former Yugoslavia, 1998

Outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia

More common is a situation like that of ex Yugoslavia.

Reissued for technical reasons.

Unpaid assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia

Denmark remains a strong supporter of the Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.

Finally, domestic hostilities in the former Yugoslavia affected multiple treaties between Yugoslavia and several European countries.

On that basis, Serbia and Montenegro may now be considered to be stopped from denying responsibility for the liabilities of the former Yugoslavia arising after the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia but before the former Yugoslavia ceased to be a Member of the United Nations on 1 November 2000.

Treatment of the unpaid assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia

As noted above, however, the previous Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (since renamed Serbia and Montenegro) repeatedly claimed to represent the former Yugoslavia.

The former Yugoslavia has had enough destruction and mass killing.

The Tribunal began the process of transferring cases back to the States of the former Yugoslavia.

These relative shares reflect decisions already made by the Assembly with regard to the apportionment of the assessments of the former Yugoslavia and could also be applied to the unpaid assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia.

q The former Yugoslavia acceded to the Convention on 26 February 1982.

C. The experience of the Eastern European Region, in particular with regard to the Yugoslav succession

That decision necessarily and automatically terminated the membership of the former Yugoslavia in the United Nations.

Serbia and Montenegro (formerly the Federal 1 November 2000

(Signed) Željko Vukobratović Chargé d'affaires a.i. of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations

Outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia arising after 27 April 1992 post dissolution arrears (United States dollars)

Arrears of the former Yugoslavia amount to 2,081,599 (1994 2001).

At that time, the former Yugoslavia had outstanding assessed contributions that had become due and payable both before and after the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

c Succession the former Yugoslavia acceded to the Convention on 27 November 1978.

Indeed, that Government claimed that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the same person of international law, and so the same Member State, as the former Yugoslavia.

The residual 0.14 per cent of the scale (33.3 per cent of the original assessment rate for the former Yugoslavia) remained with the former Yugoslavia, to which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (since renamed Serbia and Montenegro) succeeded on 27 April 1992.

Switzerland has been closely involved in the region since the outbreak of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

We laud the efforts of the Spanish and Croatian Governments in facilitating his arrest and his transfer to the ICTY.

To that extent, the ICTY has done more than bring a measure of justice to victims and survivors in the former Yugoslavia.

I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled Dealing with the Past in ex Yugoslavia.

The Assembly did not, however, take any action to terminate the membership of the former Yugoslavia in the United Nations.

It also availed itself of the right of the former Yugoslavia, as a Member State, to circulate communications as official documents of the United Nations.

No further assessments have been issued for the former Yugoslavia since 1 November 2000.

As noted above, the former Yugoslavia ceased to exist on 1 November 2000.

With regard to the Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the United States remains committed to providing significant financial and diplomatic support.

(j) Note by the Secretary General on the outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia (A 58 189)

Concerning the ICTY, the arrest of Ante Gotovina in Spain early this month is a major step in the fight against impunity in the former Yugoslavia.

18. Decides to defer until its fifty ninth session consideration of the question of the outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia.

Throughout the period of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and subsequently there were a number of new assessments issued for various accounts.

(Signed) Eva Tomič Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations

Outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia arising before and after 27 April 1992 (United States dollars)

(c) Report of the Secretary General on the unpaid assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia (A 60 140)

The Tribunal remains committed to doing its utmost to assist the development of the rule of law in the former Yugoslavia.

Outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia at 27 April 1992 pre dissolution arrears (United States dollars)

This is the first time that the ICTY has given over a case to the jurisdiction of a domestic court in one of the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

(d) Note by the Secretary General on the outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia (A 58 189)

Work had already been done on the external debt and on the claims of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia against States and organizations.