A week before the report was released, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had told the United Nations Security Council that her investigation into NATO actions found no basis for charging NATO or its leaders with war crimes.
该报告发布一周前，国际刑事法庭前南斯拉夫首席检察官卡拉·德尔庞特告诉联合国安理会，她对北约行动的调查没有发现北约及其领导者犯有战争罪的理据。