At the start there was nothing. We had no rules of procedure, there was no budget, and above all, there was political interference in this Tribunal, which persists, but was very strong at that time.
Claude Jorda, ICTY judge from 1994 and its two terms President (1999-2003), talks in a farewell interview with SENSE in February 2003 how the tribunal – despite facing many obstacles since its inception - managed to survive and prove that international criminal justice is possible.