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The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

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The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted by the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court in July 1998. Three principles dominate the statute: the need to complement but not replace national courts; to concentrate on serious international crimes such as genocide; and to adhere as much as possible to existing international law. The statute defines the court's jurisdiction and choice of applicable crimes.

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The Rome Conference on an international criminal court: the negotiating process

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The United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court began in Rome on June 15, 1998. The 1400 points of disagreement in the Preparatory Committee's draft statute showed that the Conference still had much to do. The three principal crimes covered are genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, though some delegations proposed other crimes. The Conference failed to adopt the Rome Statute that finally emerged.

Evaluation, International mediation

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The United States and the international criminal court

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The creation of a permanent international criminal court (ICC) will remain a compelling US national interest. At the Rome Conference for the establishment of an ICC the US had three principal goals: to produce a treaty, to see that US responsibility for international peace acknowledged, and to ensure that prosecutors could not commence investigations without referral to the treaty or to the UN Security Council. The US regards the resulting Rome Treaty as flawed.

United States

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