Establishment of War Crimes Tribunal Imminent

On December 15, 1992, in Stockholm during the meeting of ministers of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, calls by the United Nations and the United States to establish a tribunal to prosecute war crimes in the war in former Yugoslavia had wide support. Meanwhile, on December 15, 1992 the French Foreign Ministry indicated that here and outside the Conference the U.S. and France have been discussing creating a permanent international war crimes court, whose first operational work would be to try war criminals in the former Yugoslavia…[more]