A/HRC/41/11/Add.1 104.62. Accepted. 104.63. Accepted. 104.64. Accepted. 104.65. Accepted. 104.66. Accepted. 104.67. Accepted. 104.68. Accepted. 104.69. Accepted. 104.70. Accepted. 104.71. Accepted. 104.72. Accepted. 104.73. Accepted. 104.74. Accepted. 104.75. Accepted. 104.76. Accepted. 104.77. Accepted. 104.78. Accepted. 104.79. Accepted. 104.80. Accepted. 104.81. Accepted. 104.82. Accepted. 104.83. Accepted. 104.84. Accepted. 104.85. Accepted. 104.86. Noted. On 7 March 2002 the Assembly adopted the Law on Amnesty ("Official Gazette" No. 18/2002). Article 1 paragraph 1 of the Law stipulates that: “citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, persons with legal residence, as well as persons who have property or family in the Republic of Macedonia (hereinafter referred to as: persons) for which there is a reasonable doubt that they have prepared or committed crimes related to the conflict in 2001, as of September 26, 2001, by this Law shall be exempted from prosecution, criminal proceedings shall be stopped and (they) shall be completely exempt from the execution of the sentence of imprisonment”. Further, Article 1, paragraph 4 of the Law, determines that “the amnesty does not apply to persons who have committed crimes related to the 2001 conflict, which are in the competence and for which the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of the International humanitarian law in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 will initiate proceedings. Furthermore, on 19 July 2011, the Assembly adopted an “Authentic Interpretation of Article 1 of the Amnesty Law” (Official Gazette No. 99/2011). In the last paragraph of the above mentioned Authentic Interpretation it is provided that “Article 1 of the Amnesty Law should be interpreted so that the amnesty applies to all perpetrators of criminal acts related to the conflict in 2001, as 4

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