Subject: from TRANSNATIONAL - Satyagraha - No 9
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THE STARTING POINT FOR THE FOUNDING OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
After this initiative (by the Radical Party) became widely known around the
world, an International tribunal for crimes has recently been instituted in
the former Yugoslavia. Moreover, the UN 49th General Assembly has made a
very important step toward the founding of a permanent Criminal Court, an
essential fragment for the affirmation of transnational law and
jurisdiction.
The A/C.6/49/L.24 resolution, approved with "consensus" by the 6th UN
Commission and ratified by the UN 49th General Assembly, has decided for
the creation of an "ad hoc" Committee (open to all UN member countries and
related agencies) to closely examine any problem resulting from the statute
by the I.L.C. (International Law Commission).
The "ad hoc" Committee meetings are scheduled for April 3-13 and August
14-25 this year, while its report will be presented at the UN 50th session.
The resolution invites all UN member countries to submit their written
opinions about the I.L.C. statute to the UN General Secretary by March 15.
On the other hand, the General Secretary will present to the "ad hoc"
Committee a previous report including a temporary estimate of staff,
structure and budget needed to set up and make operative the International
permanent Criminal Court.
The resolution contains the inclusion in the provisional agenda of the 50th
General Assembly of the topic "The founding of an International Criminal
Court", including the report by the "ad hoc" Committee and the various
countries' opinions. The 50th General Assembly should also take a decision
about scheduling an International Conference of the plenipotentiaries, in
order to decide regarding the actual founding of the International Criminal
Court (time and length of this Conference should also be defined).
Finally, the resolution expresses great appreciation for the availability
of the Italian Cabinet to hold such Conference in Italy.
After decades of discussions, the UN have finally set the premises for the
creation of an institution with universal jurisdiction for violations such
as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aggression. This
political success is to be allotted on one side to the commitment of the
Italian cabinet - represented by Emma Bonino, secretary of the Radical
Party, at the debate of the 6th Commission - and on the other to the
initiative of the transparty and transnational Radical Party. An initiative
firmly pursued for two years in many countries, with International appeals
signed by thousands of people, including members of parliaments,
personalities of the science, art and culture scene and by several Nobel
Prize recipients. An initiative made possible by economic and solid
contributions of thousands of citizens in such countries as Italy, Eastern,
Central and Western Europe, Latin and North America and some parts of
Africa as well.
It will need a similar mobilization, and if possible an even bigger, to
salute the 1995 as the year of the UN final decision about the creation of
the International Criminal Court.
Every citizen and member of National parliaments, every individual has now
the possibility to give strength (also economically) to the political
subject that, despite its scarcity of resources, was able to transmit, at
the UN level, the common feeling of those huge minorities in the world
asking for the setting of a justice really able to establish relationship
between the individuals and the population.
