NEW YORK, May 22 (Hina) - Croatia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ivan Simonovic, on Monday handed over to World Organisation officials the instrument for the ratification of the statute of an International Criminal Court, the
Croatian mission to the UN stated last night.
NEW YORK, May 22 (Hina) - Croatia's Ambassador to the United
Nations, Ivan Simonovic, on Monday handed over to World
Organisation officials the instrument for the ratification of the
statute of an International Criminal Court, the Croatian mission to
the UN stated last night.#L#
Thus, Croatia has become the 32nd country to produce the
ratification document to the UN Secretary General.
The statute will take effect when 60 countries ratify it.
Croatia's parliament passed a law on the ratification of the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court on 28 March 2001. The
Rome Statute was adopted at a UN diplomatic conference held in the
Italian capital in July 1998.
To date, 139 states have signed the statute, and only 32 of them have
produced the document on the ratification.
The International Criminal Court, which is to be set up in The
Hague, is expected to have jurisdiction in accordance with this
Statute with respect to the following crimes: genocide, crimes
against humanity and war crimes. The Court shall exercise
jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is
adopted defining the crime and setting out the conditions under
which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this
crime.
This will be the first international permanent criminal court to
try war criminals. The jurisdiction of the courts in Nuremberg and
Tokyo, as well as tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda,
has been limited by time and territory.
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