UN Security Council
2003

ICTY’s jurisdiction and transferring cases involving those who may not bear this 03-48170 (E) * 034 817 0* S/RES/1503 (2003) level of responsibility to competent national jurisdictions, as appropriate, as well as the strengthening of the capacity of such jurisdictions, Urging the ICTR to formalize a detailed strategy, modelled on the ICTY Completion Strategy, to transfer cases involving intermediate- and lower-rank accused to competent national jurisdictions, as appropriate, including Rwanda, in order to allow the ICTR to achieve its objective of completing investigations by the end of 2004, all trial activities at first instance by the end of 2008, and all of its work in 2010 (ICTR Completion Strategy), Noting that the above-mentioned Completion Strategies in no way alter the obligation of Rwanda and the countries of the former Yugoslavia to investigate those accused whose cases would not be tried by the ICTR or ICTY and take appropriate action with respect to indictment and prosecution, while bearing in mind the primacy of the ICTY and ICTR over national courts, Noting that the strengthening of national judicial systems is crucially important