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ICC forces countries to adjust their behaviors

  1. Posted on Tuesday 1 June 2010 - 14:01
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    The UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon says the International Criminal Court is forcing governments to adjust their behaviors. The court has been in existence for the last eight years.

    He was last addressing the Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort Kampala.
    The conference lasts until June 11, 2010.

    Ki-Moon notes that the court had reduced impunity stressing that the court has sprung, “so vigorously into life, fully operational, investigating and prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

    The conference represents the first opportunity to consider amendments to the Rome Statute and to take stock of its implementation and impact since it entered into force in 2002. Over 2000 representatives of States, non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations are participating at the conference.

    Ki-Moon wants member states to step up teamwork and support this court.

    Meanwhile Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni describes this conference as an opportunity to discredit the claim that the international Criminal Court is for Europeans to judge Africans.

    He tells Africans that they are the beneficiaries and they should embrace it.

    He was speaking at the State Banquet in honor of the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon and heads of delegations of the ICC member states at State House Entebbe.

    '' Uganda has joined the rest of the world to assert that cowardly acts of terrorism, genocide and other acts of genocide shall not be tolerated'', he said.

    Speaking during the same occasion, Jakaya Kikwete- the President of the Republic of Tanzania, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to the ICC in fulfillment of its set objectives.

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