United Nations Security Council resolution 1504, adopted unanimously on 4 September 2003, after recalling
Resolution 1503 (2003), the Council appointed
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...
as
Prosecutor at the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The Security Council welcomed the Secretary-General
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founde ...
's intention to nominate Carla Del Ponte, and subsequently approved her appointment for a four-year term, beginning on 15 September 2003.
See also
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Bosnian Genocide
The Bosnian genocide ( bs, bosanski genocid) refers to either the Srebrenica massacre or the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing campaign throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Bosnian War o ...
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(2003–2005)
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Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from ...
References
External links
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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
1504
1504
September 2003 events
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