AFP
PHNOM PENH- THE UN-backed court set up in Cambodia to try former Khmer Rouge leaders is seeking donors' approval for a budget of more than US$93 million ($130 million) over the next two years, a court statement said Friday.
The statement said a budget for 2010 and 2011 had been presented to UN and donor country officials during meetings in New York this week.
'Based on the anticipated needs of the court for the coming two years, the (tribunal) is requesting approval of the proposed budget in the amount of US$46.0 million for 2010 and US$47.3 million for 2011,' it said.
Tribunal spokesman Lars Olsen said the court's 2009 budget was US$36.4 million.
The statement said costs had risen because the court's pre-trial chamber would be functioning full-time, while its supreme court may also go full-time from the middle of next year. Defence costs for legal representation related to potential additional cases also raised budget estimates, it said.
Originally budgeted at US$56.3 million over three years, the tribunal opened in 2006 after nearly a decade of wrangling between the UN and Cambodia but significantly raised its cost estimates last year to US$170 million.
The statement said a budget for 2010 and 2011 had been presented to UN and donor country officials during meetings in New York this week.
'Based on the anticipated needs of the court for the coming two years, the (tribunal) is requesting approval of the proposed budget in the amount of US$46.0 million for 2010 and US$47.3 million for 2011,' it said.
Tribunal spokesman Lars Olsen said the court's 2009 budget was US$36.4 million.
The statement said costs had risen because the court's pre-trial chamber would be functioning full-time, while its supreme court may also go full-time from the middle of next year. Defence costs for legal representation related to potential additional cases also raised budget estimates, it said.
Originally budgeted at US$56.3 million over three years, the tribunal opened in 2006 after nearly a decade of wrangling between the UN and Cambodia but significantly raised its cost estimates last year to US$170 million.
5 comments:
How many money still you need?
$100 millions, $ 1 billion ?
Till now is onle Duch was convicted, but the others still walk around on front of the court's face.
God bless Khmer
Stop theatering this whole non-sense comic. It is just adding an insult to me as a Khmer Rough victim or someone else. By now I am sick and tired of this whole Bullshit court procedure. Perhaps, they should let those people that have indicted go and that way the poor Khmer people don't need to pay their medical bill. What a jock.
One Khmer Rough Victim
Begging for alot of money each year, but couldn't even prosecute Hun Sen or HorNam Hong.
And they dare ask for money.
Pol Pot is very brutal but he is really Khmer nationalist, that is the fact, why?
Last interview with US journalist Taylor before he died he told that "from now we Khmer has nothing against Viet, no longer Viet can take Khmer soil very easy". Now, if we are Khmer, what can you all see the of Viet step by step on Cambodia now ??
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