Carla Del Ponte
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"Carla Del Ponte" 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 Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1999, replacing Louise Arbour.

In 2003, the U.N. Security Council removed Del Ponte as the Prosecutor for the ICTR, and replaced her there with Hassan Bubacar Jallow in an effort to expedite proceedings in that Tribunal. She remained the Prosecutor for the ICTY until 1 January 2008, when she was succeeded by Serge Brammertz. Del Ponte was formerly married, and has one son.

On behalf of the European Parliament she conducted an investigation on allegations of Organ trade/organ trafficking by the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army. According to these allegations, organs were forcibly taken from Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Albania.

Del Ponte served as Swiss ambassador to Argentina from 2008 to February 2011.

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They said they have no intelligence and I don't believe that. I think that the Catholic Church has the most advanced intelligence services.

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Before the end of September and I would be really very happy if I had the possibility to assess positively.

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They said they have no intelligence, and I don't believe that, ... The Vatican refuses totally to cooperate with us.

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The prosecutor expects that Serbia will live up to its promises given to her during her last visit in Belgrade and deliver Mladic before that date.

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It is true that the co-operation with Belgrade has started.

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We are very pleased with the cooperation we received from Belgrade. Finally we can say we have a reciprocal cooperation between The Hague and Belgrade.

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My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic.

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I have information he is hiding in a Franciscan monastery, and so the Catholic Church is protecting him. I have taken this up with the Vatican and the Vatican refuses totally to co-operate with us.

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