Good luck to you Hassan
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Prosecutor proposes a Belgian, a Gambian and a Ukrainian for his deputy
Wed Aug 13, 7:11 AM ET


THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The chief prosecutor of the world's first
permanent war crimes court proposed Wednesday a shortlist of eminent
attorneys and former prosecutors from Belgium, Gambia and Ukraine for the
job as his deputy.

The selection would be another significant step in launching the
International Criminal Court, which came into existence 13 months ago but
which still lacks the infrastructure and personnel to investigate
allegations of war crimes and to begin prosecutions.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo said one of the three should be chosen next month at a
conference in New York of the 91 member countries which signed the treaty
creating the court. If none of the candidates is found suitable, the
conference may ask the prosecutor for a new list.

Moreno-Ocampo named the candidates as Serge Brammertz, 41, a veteran
federal prosecutor from Belgium; Hassan Bubacarr Jallow, 51, a former
supreme court justice, attorney general and justice minister from Gambia;
and Vladimir Tochilovsky, 57, a former Ukrainian district attorney who
worked for nine years as an investigator and trial lawyer for the Yugoslav
war crimes tribunal based in The Hague.

"I have no preference for one or the other," Moreno-Ocampo told journalists
at the court's temporary headquarters. "Each would be perfect."

The Argentine chief prosecutor, who took up his post in June, said he
consulted the current chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav tribunal, Carla Del
Ponte, and two of her predecessors in narrowing the final list of
candidates from the 130 applicants.

Although it has not yet begun to function, Moreno-Ocampo announced last
month he was following events in the Ituri province of Congo for a possible
war crimes investigation, but said the court's mandate gave it no
jurisdiction to prosecute alleged war crimes in Iraq or the Middle East.

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