In light of information regarding a possible travel to South Africa of Mr. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, President of Republic of Sudan, to participate in the 25^th Summit of the African Union, the President of the Assembly of States to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, recalls that two arrest warrants issued by the Court against Mr. Al-Bashir remain outstanding.

​In the framework of his activities to promote the cooperation of States with the International Criminal Court, the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute ("the Assembly") of the International Criminal Court ("the Court"), H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba travelled to Bamako, on 21 May 2015, to meet with H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of the Republic of Mali.

At the outset of their meeting, President Sidiki Kaba welcomed the excellent cooperation of the Government of Mali with the Court and its engagement with the Assembly.

The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, H.E. Mr Sidiki Kaba, welcomes the deposit by the Czech Republic on 12 March 2015 of the instruments of ratification of the amendments to the Statute on war crimes and the crime of aggression.

The said instruments were presented by H.E. Ms Edita Hrdá, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations in the presence of Minister Kaba.

Today, 11 March 2015, the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session, elected Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (Argentina) as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect. Judge Joyce Aluoch (Kenya) was elected First Vice-President and Judge Kuniko Ozaki (Japan) Second Vice-President.

Today, 10 March 2015, six new judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) were sworn in at a ceremony held at the seat of the Court in The Hague (Netherlands). Judges Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France), Piotr Hofmański (Poland), Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Bertram Schmitt (Germany), Péter Kovács (Hungary) and Chang-ho Chung (Republic of Korea) were elected for nine-year terms during the thirteenth session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute in December 2014. 

​The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, welcomes the deposit by the Republic of Malta, on 30 January 2015, and by Costa Rica, on 5 February 2015, of their instruments of ratification of the amendments to the Statute on war crimes and the crime of aggression adopted at the first Review Conference held in Kampala, Uganda.

On 7 January 2015, the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute ("the Assembly"), Minister Sidiki Kaba welcomed the deposit by the State of Palestine of the instruments of accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and to the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court (APIC), which was notified on 6 January 2015 by the Secretary-General of the United Nations acting in his capacity as depositary.

​The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ("the Assembly") held its thirteenth session from 8 to 17 December 2014, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Assembly was attended by States Parties, observer States, invited States, international and regional organizations and representatives from civil society.

The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, welcome the deposit on 5 December 2014 of the instrument of ratification of Georgia of the 2010 amendments to the Rome Statute on the crime of aggression by H.E. Mr. Gocha Lordkipanidze, Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia. The deposit of the instrument of ratification by Georgia brings the number of ratifications of the amendments on the crime of aggression to twenty.

The President of the Assembly of States Parties (“the Assembly”), Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, visited The Hague on 13 and 14 November 2014. During her last visit as the President of the Assembly, Ambassador Intelmann met with the Court officials and expressed her gratitude for their support and cooperation during her three year mandate. Ambassador Intelmann held the position of the President of the Assembly from its tenth session in 2011 and will be succeeded by the Minister of Justice of Senegal, H.E. Mr.