Identifier
Created
Classification
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08LJUBLJANA309
2008-07-10 09:21:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ljubljana
Cable title:
UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE - SLOVENIA DOES NOT CONCUR WITH STREAMLINED REFORMS
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C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (ADD SENSITIVE CAPTION)
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
IO/MPR BRIAN G. HACKETT, USUN/L ELIZABETH WILCOX, USUN/MR
BRUCE RASHKOW
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC APER UNGA UNGAC SI
SUBJECT: UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE - SLOVENIA DOES NOT
CONCUR WITH STREAMLINED REFORMS
REF: SECSTATE 51372
(SBU) Post took action directed by reftel and on June 10, the
Head of the MFA's International Law Department Simona Drenik
passed Embassy a written reply (emailed to IO/MPR, USUN/L,
and USUN/MR) stating Slovenia's agreement with the Report of
the Redesign Panel and the Secretary Generals Notes, but
stressed, however, that the new system should not lessen the
existing level of rights for the staff, and thus it does not
concur with several of the U.S. recommended reforms for the
new streamlined internal justice system. Drenik elaborated
that the GOS assesses that the UN should discuss the
categories of non-staff personnel and whether the legal
remedies available to non-staff personnel are an effective
legal recourse. Unlike the U.S. view of appointing only one
judge to hear cases at the trial level, Drenik stated that,
in the GOS view, three-judge panels should be possible in
exceptional cases, adn there should be grounds for appeal in
cases of "clearly unreasonable decisions." In contrast to
the U.S. position that pending cases be reassigned to the UN
Dispute Tribunal, which will be established on January 1,
2009, Drenik said that the GOS leans toward the option of
reassigning the pending cases to the newly revamped internal
justice system itself.
GHAFARI
C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (ADD SENSITIVE CAPTION)
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
IO/MPR BRIAN G. HACKETT, USUN/L ELIZABETH WILCOX, USUN/MR
BRUCE RASHKOW
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC APER UNGA UNGAC SI
SUBJECT: UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE - SLOVENIA DOES NOT
CONCUR WITH STREAMLINED REFORMS
REF: SECSTATE 51372
(SBU) Post took action directed by reftel and on June 10, the
Head of the MFA's International Law Department Simona Drenik
passed Embassy a written reply (emailed to IO/MPR, USUN/L,
and USUN/MR) stating Slovenia's agreement with the Report of
the Redesign Panel and the Secretary Generals Notes, but
stressed, however, that the new system should not lessen the
existing level of rights for the staff, and thus it does not
concur with several of the U.S. recommended reforms for the
new streamlined internal justice system. Drenik elaborated
that the GOS assesses that the UN should discuss the
categories of non-staff personnel and whether the legal
remedies available to non-staff personnel are an effective
legal recourse. Unlike the U.S. view of appointing only one
judge to hear cases at the trial level, Drenik stated that,
in the GOS view, three-judge panels should be possible in
exceptional cases, adn there should be grounds for appeal in
cases of "clearly unreasonable decisions." In contrast to
the U.S. position that pending cases be reassigned to the UN
Dispute Tribunal, which will be established on January 1,
2009, Drenik said that the GOS leans toward the option of
reassigning the pending cases to the newly revamped internal
justice system itself.
GHAFARI