Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dec 2, SPA -- The chief prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal arrived in Sarajevo onThursday to visit a recently established court that willtry war crimes cases here next year. Carla Del Ponte and Bosnia's top internationaladministrator, Paddy Ashdown, will meet the Court ofBosnia's president, Medzida Kreho and chief prosecutor,Marinko Jurcevic. They will review reconstruction work on the infrastructureneeded to start war crimes trials in the Court's SpecialWar Crimes Chamber. "The court is a key element of the reform of the rule oflaw in Bosnia," Ashdown's office said in a statement. TheCourt has a mandate to deal with war crimes and the mostserious organized crime cases. In January, Bosnia is supposed to begin prosecutingsuspected war criminals from the 1992-95 Balkans wars,during which an estimated 250,000 people were killed and1.8 million were displaced. Bosnia has approved the creation of a war-crimes chamberto handle lower level cases, while the U.N. war crimestribunal based in The Hague, Netherlands will continue todeal with senior political and military officials,including former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The U.N. tribunal in The Hague is supposed to transfercases to the Bosnian judicial system for trial next year.The Bosnian court is to operate with funds donated by theUnited States and other countries, including Japan. The U.N. tribunal is under pressure to wind upprosecutions in The Hague by 2008 and be ready to close by2010. The court was set up in 1993 by the U.N. SecurityCouncil. --SPA1233 Local Time 0933 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/221392