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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
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