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It's a terrible irony to see somebody who has done so much for bringing war criminals to trial in the former Yugoslavia ... is now being brought up on a charge that he may have embezzled funds in the account of the mission and only on the basis of a yet unconcluded investigation,


Cherif Bassiouni

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