Subject: From TRANSNATIONAL - Satyagraha - 18 July 1994 - No. 6
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AN INTERNATIONAL COURT BY 1995
The 49th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, which opens on 20 September,
will include the International Court for crimes against humanity on its
agenda. The International Law Commission, a subsidiary organ of the General
Assembly, will submit the draft State before 22 July.
It is important to remember that it will be discussed by the Sixth
Committee of the G.A., inasmuch as the plenary session is reserved for
speeches made by Foreign Ministers on themes of general interest to the
U.N. and to the formal adoption of resolutions only. The Italian
Government, in accordance with the contratto di maggioranza (majority
agreement) signed by the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Marco
Pannella, has undertaken to charge Emma Bonino, Secretary of the Radical
Party, with communicating Italian policy at the G.A. meetings on this
subject.
The ambitious goal that the Radical Party has set itself, and which it will
be committed to achieving in the following months, is that of obtaining,
during the 49th Session, the approval of a Resolution summoningan
International Conference, under the auspices of the U.N., for the
institution of the International Court: before the end of 1995, the
fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.
This is the first crucial step that must be taken in order to create real
international jurisdiction: one of the objectives established by the Motion
approved by the General Council of the Radical Party in July 1993, and also
one of the goals of the "There's No Justice without Peace" Committee
composed of parliamentarians, mayors and citizens who are campaigning for a
new law of nations.
