III. COMMITTEE FOR THE INVESTIGATION
AND PROSECUTION OF MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS
Article 14. Each Signatory shall appoint a
Chief Prosecutor for the investigation of the charges against and the
prosecution of major war criminals.
The Chief Prosecutors shall act as a committee for the following
purposes:
(a) to agree upon a plan of the
individual work of each of the Chief Prosecutors and his staff,
(b) to settle the final designation of major war criminals to be
tried by the Tribunal,
(c) to approve the Indictment and the documents to be submitted
therewith,
(d) to lodge the Indictment and the accompanying documents with
the Tribunal,
(e) to draw up and recommend to the Tribunal for its approval
draft rules of procedure, contemplated by Article 13 of this Charter.
The Tribunal shall have power to accept, with or without amendments,
or to reject, the rules so recommended.
The Committee shall act in all the above matters by a majority
vote and shall appoint a Chairman as may be convenient and in
accordance with the principle of rotation: provided that if there is
an equal division of vote concerning the designation of a defendant
to be tried by the Tribunal, or the crimes with which he shall be
charged, that proposal will be adopted which was made by the party
which proposed that the particular defendant be tried, or the
particular charges be preferred against him.
Article 15. The Chief Prosecutors shall individually, and
acting in collaboration with one another, also undertake the
following duties:
(a) investigation, collection, and
production before or at the Trial of all necessary evidence,
(b) the preparation of the Indictment for approval by the
Committee in accordance with paragraph (c) of Article 14 hereof.
(c) the preliminary examination of all necessary witnesses and of
the defendants,
(d) to act as prosecutor at the Trial,
(e) to appoint representatives to carry out such duties as may be
assigned to them,
(f) to undertake such other matters as may appear necessary to
them for the purposes of the preparation for and conduct of the
Trial.
It is understood that no witness or defendant detained by any
Signatory shall be taken out of the possession of that Signatory
without its assent.