The ICTY was established by Resolution 827 of the UN Security Council in May 1993 and all UN members are obliged to co-operate fully with it.

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The Bosnian Croat leadership, along with Croat leaders, wanted to make this territory part of a "Greater Croatia, " said the ICTY, which is based in the Hague.

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On Wednesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon named Norman Farrell, the Canadian deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as Mr Bellemare's successor.

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Military commander Mladic and his political leader Radovan Karadzic are still on trial at the ICTY for overseeing Serb atrocities during the conflict, in which some 100, 000 people died.

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Correction: An earlier version of this report used figures based on an annual budget for the ICTY and ICTR, when in fact they both now operate with a biennial budget.

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The ICTY's ruling comes three months after appeal judges at The Hague acquitted the former chief of the Yugoslav National Army of aiding and abetting atrocities by rebel Serbs in Bosnia.

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Estimates as of autumn 2009 suggest that all but four of the ICTY's trials will conclude in 2010, three more in early 2011, and the final trial, that of Karadzic, in early 2012.

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But the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) said there was insufficient evidence to show that either man had assisted soldiers who were allegedly responsible for murder and other crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.

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There will also be a an international fair at the World Forum across from the ICTY that same day, with representatives of the various courts and peace organizations on site and ready to explain what they do and why.

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