Subject: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (1-Ago-94, C.L'Abbate, I, Roma)
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TO: INTERNATIONAL LAW SUB-NETWORK
FROM: Dip. Emma Bonino/William Powell, MP
Kennedy Graham, Secretary-General
Re: International Criminal Court: Parliamentary Action
Attached is a report of our second round of consultations with members of
the International Law Commission (ILC), currently meeting on, inter alia,
the draft statute for a permanent international criminal court. As yoi see,
progress is good.
Now is the critical time of the year for parliamentarian action to provide
political support for this issue. Between July and September, governments
prepare briefs for the General Assembly, whose Sixth (Legal) Committee
deals with the subject in early October. The ILC has completed its report
to the Sixth Committee, containing a finished draft statute for a permanent
court. That, in the opinion of the ILC, will represent the end of its task
as individual experts, and it will thenceforth be for the General Assembly
to commence the political work of getting a consensus on the draft. It will
be a major accomplishement for the ILC to have completed a draft statute
within two years of being requested by the Assembly to do so.
We therefore request that the following action be taken by the subnetwork:
* MPs in recess in the northern hemisphere form delgates of two or
three colleagues across party lines and meet with the Foreign and Justice
Ministers, urging them to take a positive political approach to the
principle of a court and the commencement of a conference in 1995;
* MPs in the southern hemisphere raise the subject in the
legislatures, with the same objective.
We hope that we can mount a coordinated campaign on this issue across 30 or
more parliaments over a two-month period; mid-July to mid-September. We
appeal to you to respond to thFrom l.giannini Wed Aug 3 12:32:10 1994
From: L.Giannini@agora.stm.it
To: transnat@agora.stm.it
Subject: THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE: UKRAINE
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 12:31:28 GMT
(1-Ago-94, N.Khramov, RU, Moscow)
Pavlo Movchan, well known Ukrainian writer and deputy of Ukrainian Supreme
Rada (parliament) has declared about his readyness to join the "There Is No
Peace Without Justice" International Committee. He told it today in a
telephone conversation, noting that in half an hour he goes out of Ukraine
and will officialy join the Committee after coming back August
10.
