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INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0209

UNCLAS LJUBLJANA 000309 
 
C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (ADD SENSITIVE CAPTION) 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
IO/MPR BRIAN G. HACKETT, USUN/L ELIZABETH WILCOX, USUN/MR 
BRUCE RASHKOW 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL AORC APER UNGA UNGAC SI
SUBJECT: UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE - SLOVENIA DOES NOT 
CONCUR WITH STREAMLINED REFORMS 
 
REF: SECSTATE 51372 
 
(SBU) Post took action directed by reftel and on June 10, the 
Head of the MFA's International Law Department Simona Drenik 
passed Embassy a written reply (emailed to IO/MPR, USUN/L, 
and USUN/MR) stating Slovenia's agreement with the Report of 
the Redesign Panel and the Secretary Generals Notes, but 
stressed, however, that the new system should not lessen the 
existing level of rights for the staff, and thus it does not 
concur with several of the U.S. recommended reforms for the 
new streamlined internal justice system.  Drenik elaborated 
that the GOS assesses that the UN should discuss the 
categories of non-staff personnel and whether the legal 
remedies available to non-staff personnel are an effective 
legal recourse.  Unlike the U.S. view of appointing only one 
judge to hear cases at the trial level, Drenik stated that, 
in the GOS view, three-judge panels should be possible in 
exceptional cases, adn there should be grounds for appeal in 
cases of "clearly unreasonable decisions."  In contrast to 
the U.S. position that pending cases be reassigned to the UN 
Dispute Tribunal, which will be established on January 1, 
2009, Drenik said that the GOS leans toward the option of 
reassigning the pending cases to the newly revamped internal 
justice system itself. 
GHAFARI