The Hague-based ICTY issued a brief statement on Monday reading that "there will be a hearing in the case against Slobodan Milosevic tomorrow, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 at 9:00 in Courtroom I."
The former Serbian and Yugoslav president was found dead in his cell of the ICTY detention centre in Scheveningen on Saturday.
According to preliminary autopsy results announced by the ICTY on Sunday night, Milosevic died of a heart attack.
The president of the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal, Fausto Pocar, and chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte have voiced deep regret and disappointment at Milosevic's death, saying that it has prevented the completion of his trial and denied the victims the right to see justice done. Pocar and del Ponte were speaking at a news conference in The Hague on Sunday.
Pocar said on that occasion that the trial chamber which had been conducting the Milosevic trial for more than four years would deal with the status of the proceedings in the foreseeable time.
Under the tribunal's rules of procedure, the trial chamber will issue an order to discontinue the trial due to the death of the accused.
The prosecution has introduced almost 300 witnesses and 5,000 pieces of evidence, and after the first stage of the trial in 2004, the trial chamber did not drop any of the 66 counts of the indictment, del Ponte said.
After 446 days of the trial, which started on 12 February 2002, only 50 business hours were left and the trial should have been completed by the end of spring, del Ponte said.
It's a pity for justice that the trial will not be completed and a verdict passed. However, other high-ranking officials too have been indicted for the same crimes as Milosevic, del Ponte said, adding that the trials of eight men indicted for war crimes in Srebrenica and six former Serbian leaders indicted for Kosovo would start by the end of the year.