News and Highlights   ICC President Addresses Russian Lawyers in St Petersburg 17/05/2013 The President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Sang-Hyun Song, addressed Russian lawyers in St. Petersburg this Thursday 16 May 2013 at the invitation of the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Mr. Alexander Konovalov.  President Intelmann addresses members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and participates in an event of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC 15/05/2013 The President of the Assembly of States Parties (“the Assembly”), Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, visited Strasbourg on 23 April 2013. President Intelmann met with members of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), with whom she discussed, inter alia, efforts to achieve universality of the Rome Statute and continued political support of the Parliamentary Assembly and its members to the ICC and the fight against impunity.  ICC Prosecutor receives referral by the authorities of the Union of the Comoros in relation to the events of May 2010 on the vessel ‘MAVI MARMARA’ 14/05/2013 Today my Office met with a delegation from the Istanbul-based Elmadag Law Firm, acting on behalf of the Government of the Union of the Comoros, a State Party to the International Criminal Court since 18 August 2006. Ruto and Sang case: Trial Chamber V provisionally postpones trial opening 06/05/2013 Today, 6 May 2013, Trial Chamber V of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to provisionally vacate the date of the trial’s start in the case of The Prosecutor v. William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang and conveyed a public status conference on 14 May 2013. The trial in the case against Mr Ruto and Mr Sang was initially scheduled to start on 28 May. A new date for the trial’s opening will be scheduled after hearing the parties and participants’ observations during the status conference.