Press Release: 04.04.2012
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| The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, H.E. Mr Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, and the ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, at the seat of the Court in The Hague © ICC-CPI |
Today, 4 April 2012, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Sang-Hyun Song, met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, H.E. Mr Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, at the seat of the Court in The Hague (The Netherlands).
After welcoming Mr Gryshchenko to the Court, the ICC President updated the Foreign Minister for Ukraine on the current work of the Court and stated: “I am well aware of the important steps Ukraine has earlier taken in respect of the ICC, in particular signing the Rome Statute in 2000 and ratifying the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court in 2007 as the only State not party to the Rome Statute to have done so thus far. It would be a great pleasure to see these steps followed by Ukraine’s ratification of the Rome Statute in the near future”.
Mr Gryshchenko expressed his country’s appreciation of the ICC’s important mission and informed President Song that Ukraine intends to join the Rome Statute once the necessary legal preconditions have been created in the context of the upcoming review of the country’s constitution. “In the meantime, Ukraine remains fully supportive of the ICC’s operations and continues to follow the Court’s work closely”, he stated.
The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, namely war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the crime of aggression. The ICC is an independent international organisation, and is not part of the United Nations system.
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