Honorary Lecture by Carla del Ponte at Erasmus University Rotterdam

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 12 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday 13 October 2005 Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague will be giving the 11th Mandeville lecture entitled Virtues and Vices versus Legality: The Thorny Road to International Justice at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Mrs Del Ponte will be in Rotterdam at the invitation of the Bernard Mandeville Foundation which annually organises the lecture in honour of those who have performed great contribution to society.

The Bernard Mandeville Foundation is an initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Rotterdam Business Society. Earlier graduates were Frits Bolkestein, Ruud Lubbers, Wim Duisenberg, Max van der Stoel, Bernard Kouchner and Frans Andriessen.

The ceremony will be held in the Aula of the university, Woudestein-campus, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam. Start 4 pm CET (sharp) until 5 pm CET.

Due to security measures everybody must check-in. Registration is obliged, also for press and photographers. Please register before noon, 13 October. Check-in before 3.45 pm CET. See: www.eur.nl/mandeville/11/aanmelden

Text of the lecture (10 pp) is available for publication, 13 October at noon.