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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8163

4 March 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) council of europe
Peter Schieder criticises US attitude to international criminal tribunals

Strasbourg, 04/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Peter Scheider, has issued the following declaration: "Pressure from the United States administration to close down the two International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague and in Arusha is unacceptable. It represents political interference in a judicial process aimed at seeking justice for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda....

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