New York, September 24, 1997

[...] We need an international criminal court of justice. Its statute is to be drawn up in Rome next summer. The court must be empowered to act of its own accord where genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and wars of aggression are concerned, and to do so wherever national courts either do not exist or cannot or are unwilling to prosecute such crimes. Rwanda and Srbrenica are warning signs. Such cardinal crimes should not go unpunished. [...]