The Interplay between the Transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to the ICTY and Yugoslav Constitutional Law Konstantinos D. Magliveras Full text available: PDF format * Abstract The trial of Slobodan Milosevic opened before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in February 2002. Milosevic is accused on 66 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide allegedly committed in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia. The present article examines one particular aspect of the Milosevic trial, namely, the way he was apprehended by the Serb authorities and transferred to the Tribunal in June 2001. Milosevic himself has so far contested unsuccessfully the legality of these actions. In the present article an attempt is made to determine whether these actions breached the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and of the Serb Republic. Moreover, since Yugoslavia has a clear obligation under international law to cooperate fully with the Tribunal, the article, based on the experience gained in other European federal states, suggests a workable solution to the constitutional obstacles faced by Yugoslavia. * The free viewer (Acrobat Reader) for PDF file is available at the Adobe Systems.
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