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Uganda: Updating the IPC’s statuses in Kampala

By on June 1, 2010
During ten days in Kampala, Uganda, the delegates of the 80 countries, on 111, which ratified the “Treaty of Rome”, will assess the C.P.I action that started in 2009, with the first trial.

Mister Ban Ki-moon called son the member states “to cooperate completely with the court”, adding that: “it implies to publicly support the I.P.C and execute faithfully its decisions “.
Moreover, the Kampala meeting should be used and seen as a “resonance chamber” for the different African civil society associations of the continent, where actually there is a concentration of I.P.C’s inquiries and warrants of the court.
The conference also aims at including in the area of the I.P.C competence the crime of State to State «aggression”. But the president of the member states Assembly, Christian Wenaweser, announced his «careful optimism «on the adoption of such agreement. According to him, there is a consensus that the United Nations Security Council has to be the first organ to decide whether a country committed or not an aggression against another country. But human rights organisations and numerous “young” countries consider that the Security Council body does not have the legal tools to have the last word. We are afraid that the C.P.I loses its independence, it was said.
The United States, which did not ratify the Treaty of Rome, assert that the Security Council should be the only one to determine a “aggression”. China and Russia, two other members of the Security Council, are not either members of the C.P.I.

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