On 24 November 2015, the President of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or the "Court"), Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, and the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda addressed a special plenary session at the Assembly of States Parties ("ASP" or the "Assembly") held in The Hague on the topic of increasing the efficiency and efficacy of court proceedings and operations, and discussed the significant progress made by the Court in this area.

Today, 18 November 2015, the President and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") presented the Court's annual report to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute ("ASP" or "Assembly") during the Assembly's 14^th session, held in The Hague, The Netherlands.

​The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, welcomed the deposit by Georgia, on 3 November 2015, of the instrument of ratification of the amendments to the Rome Statute on war crimes. Georgia thus becomes the twenty-sixth State to have ratified the amendments on war crimes.  

​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 Switzerland on 10 September 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. Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations.

​On 3 and 4 September 2015, 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, traveled to Conakry where he was received by H.E. Mr. Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea.

On 13 August 2015, H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute ("the Assembly") of the International Criminal Court ("the Court"), traveled to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to meet with H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission. During their exchanges, the President of the Assembly introduced the main priorities of his term and reiterated the need to develop a new relationship between Africa and the 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, undertook, on 11 and 12 August 2015, an official visit to Kenya to meet with the country's authorities.

To commemorate the Day of International Criminal Justice, the President of the Assembly of States Parties, H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, convened, on 20 and 21 July, a regional conference in Dakar on “Sovereignty of States and International Criminal Justice”. This conference was organized under the patronage of H.E. Mr. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal, and with support from the Government of The Netherlands and from the TrustAfrica foundation.

​Today, 13 July 2015, the new judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Raul Cano Pangalangan (Philippines) was sworn in at a ceremony held at the seat of the Court in The Hague (Netherlands). He was elected on 24 June 2015 to fill a judicial vacancy during the resumed thirteenth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute in The Hague (Netherlands). His term of office will end on 10 March 2021.

​The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (“the Assembly”) opened its resumed thirteenth session at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands which will last from 24 to 25 June 2015.

At its fourteenth plenary meeting the Assembly elected the following as a judge of the International Criminal Court:​