The International Criminal Court (ICC) joins with the people of Trinidad and Tobago in mourning the passing of Arthur Robinson, former Prime Minister and later President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He played a critical role in the establishment of the ICC.
In light of the information that the President of Sudan, Mr. Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, arrived in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to attend a sub-regional meeting, the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, recalls that two warrants of arrest issued by the Court against Mr. Omar Al-Bashir are outstanding.
On 31 January 2014, the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, opened and addressed the first meeting of the Working Group on the Fight Against Impunity in Francophone Africa held at the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire in Abidjan. The meeting was organized by the National Assembly and Parliamentarians for Global Action.
The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, welcomed the deposit today of the instruments of ratification of the 2010 amendments to the Rome Statute, by Ambassador Vladimir Drobnjak, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations.
Today, 12 December 2013, the new judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Geoffrey A. Henderson (Trinidad and Tobago) was sworn in at a ceremony held at the seat of the Court in The Hague (Netherlands). He was elected during the twelfth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (ASP) in November 2013 for a term that will run until 10 March 2021. The ICC Presidency has assigned Judge Henderson to the Trial Division. He will commence his service on a full-time basis at the Court on 1 February 2014.
The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (“the President”), H.E. Tiina Intelmann, welcomed the deposit of the instruments of ratification of the amendments to the Rome Statute on the crime of aggression by Belgium on 26 November 2013. The crime of aggression amendment was adopted in a historic consensus at the 2010 Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala, Uganda. Belgium also ratified the amendments pertaining to article 8 of the Rome Statute on war crimes adopted at the same conference.
On 28 November 2013 the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (“the Assembly”) concluded its twelfth session in The Hague.
The Assembly adopted eight resolutions by consensus: on the 2014 budget, on permanent premises, on cooperation, on complementarity, on victims and affected communities, on the establishment of the Independent Oversight Mechanism, on amendments to the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and on Strengthening the International Criminal Court and the Assembly of States Parties.
On 23 November the Assembly of States Parties (the Assembly) elected Mr. Geoffrey A. Henderson (Trinidad and Tobago) as judge of the ICC, with a term that will run until 10 March 2021.
On September 20, 2013 the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court (“the President”), Tiina Intelmann, sent a letter to the Chairperson of the African Union, H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (“the President”), H.E. Tiina Intelmann, welcomed the deposit of the instruments of ratification of the amendments to the Rome Statute on the crime of aggression by Andorra, Cyprus, Slovenia and Uruguay during the High-Level Week of the United Nations General Assembly. The crime of aggression amendment was adopted in a historic consensus at the 2010 Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala, Uganda.