=Article 22.= The permanent seat of the Tribunal shall be in Berlin. The first meetings of the members of the Tribunal and of the Chief Prosecutors shall be held at Berlin in a place to be designated by the Control Council for Germany. The first trial shall be held at Nuremberg, and any subsequent trials shall be held at such places as the Tribunal may decide. =Article 23.= One or more of the Chief Prosecutors may take part in the prosecution at each Trial. The function of any Chief Prosecutor may be discharged by him personally, or by any person or persons authorized by him. The function of Counsel for a Defendant may be discharged at the Defendant’s request by any Counsel professionally qualified to conduct cases before the Courts of his own country, or by any other person who may be specially authorized thereto by the Tribunal. =Article 24.= The proceedings at the Trial shall take the following course: (_a_) The Indictment shall be read in court. (_b_) The Tribunal shall ask each Defendant whether he pleads “guilty” or “not guilty”. (_c_) The Prosecution shall make an opening statement. (_d_) The Tribunal shall ask the Prosecution and the Defense what evidence (if any) they wish to submit to the Tribunal, and the Tribunal shall rule upon the admissibility of any such evidence. (_e_) The witnesses for the Prosecution shall be examined and after that the witnesses for the Defense. Thereafter such rebutting evidence as may be held by the Tribunal to be admissible shall be called by either the Prosecution or the Defense. (_f_) The Tribunal may put any question to any witness and to any Defendant, at any time. (_g_) The Prosecution and the Defense shall interrogate and may cross-examine any witnesses and any Defendant who gives testimony. (_h_) The Defense shall address the court. (_i_) The Prosecution shall address the court. (_j_) Each Defendant may make a statement to the Tribunal. (_k_) The Tribunal shall deliver judgment and pronounce sentence. =Article 25.= All official documents shall be produced, and all court proceedings conducted, in English, French and Russian, and in the language of the Defendant. So much of the record and of the proceedings may also be translated into the language of any country in which the Tribunal is sitting, as the Tribunal considers desirable in the interests of justice and public opinion. VI. JUDGMENT AND SENTENCE =Article 26.= The judgment of the Tribunal as to the guilt or the innocence of any Defendant shall give the reasons on which it is based, and shall be final and not subject to review. =Article 27.= The Tribunal shall have the right to impose upon a Defendant, on conviction, death or such other punishment as shall be determined by it to be just.