The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General was surprised to learn of the statement attributed to Jiri Dienstbier, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, suggesting that the war crimes indictment against Slobodan Milosevic be dropped.
The Secretary-General wishes to make clear that the Special Repporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights act in their personal capacity as independent experts and do not represent the views of the Secretary-General or of any inter-governmental organ.
The Secretary-General recalls that the question of indictments before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, under its Statute, falls within the exclusive competence of the Prosecutor and the Trial Chambers acting as independent organs of the Tribunal.
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