In addition, the appeal of one accused against conviction and sentence was rejected by the Appeals Chamber, which at the same time allowed appeals by the Prosecutor against his acquittal on certain counts. During the year, the President of the Tribunal wrote four times to the President of the Security Council protesting at the failure of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to cooperate with the Tribunal, its continuing failure to arrest and transfer three persons indicted by the Tribunal and its persistent refusal to permit the Prosecutor and her investigators to enter Kosovo. As a consequence of events in Kosovo, the Office of the Prosecutor established temporary operational bases in Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Prosecutor also received my authorization to recruit up to 300 type-II gratis personnel from Member States to undertake specialized forensic work in Kosovo as soon as international forces were deployed. Austria and Sweden concluded agreements on enforcing the sentences of the Tribunal, bringing to five the number of those agreements concluded to date.
Negotiations are under way with other States to secure similar agreements.
On 16 October 1998, the General Assembly elected three judges to staff a new, third Trial Chamber. They took up their duties on 16 November 1998. Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald announced her resignation from the Tribunal, with effect from 17 November 1999. Following consultations with the Presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly, I appointed Patricia McGowan Wald, a national of the United States of America, to serve out the remainder of Judge McDonald's term of office, which ends in November 2001. The Prosecutor of the two Tribunals, Louise Arbour, announced her resignation with effect from 15 September 1999.