February 10, 1995

Dag Hammarskjold Lounge

777 UN Plaza, 12th floor

New York, NY 10017

The meeting is being organized in cooperation with Amnesty

International and the COMITATO NON C'E' PACE SENZA GIUSTIZIA

and the INTGLIM-International NGO Task Group on legal and Instituional Matters.

I. THE AD HOC TRIBUNALS FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND RWANDA

A. Substantive issues arising out of the Statutes and

rules of Procedure, Evidence and Detention: lessons

for the drafting of the statue of the ICC.

B. How can NGOs work to make the ad hoc Tribunals more

effective? Lobbying for funds amicus curiae briefs,

monitoring local trials and trials in the ad hoc

Tribunals, adoption of legislation permitting states

to cooperate, legal aid and training for lawyers.

II. CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC)

A.The Drafting Procedure/Intergovernmental Process

- What has been accomplished so far?

- How long to convince the governments to submit

constructive comments on the draft statute by 15 March?

What actions have been taken so far?

- How to ensue NGO participation in the AD HOC Committee

sessions(3-13 April and, possibly, 14-25 August) and to

lobby effectively before and at the AD HOC Committee?

- How to lobby effectively before and at the UN General

Assembly's 50th session?

B. NGO strategy and how to build a coalition (targets,

techniques and allies)

C. The Substantive Contentious Problems

1. Link to the UN

2. Role of the Security Council

3. Jurisdiction over which crimes?

4.Finance and other resource issues

Partial Listing

Liz Eagan Lawyer Committee for Human Right

Mona Rishmawi Int'l Commission of Jurists

Dr.H.Schoenberg B'nai B'rith

Paul Nuti Parliamentarians for Global Action

Bella Abzug WEDO

Karin Ryan Carter Center

Marino Busdachin Transnational Radical Party

Andrew Clapham Amnesty International

William Butler American Committee ICJ

Felice Gaer Jacob Blaustein Institute

Prof.Bassiouni De Paul University

Aryeh Neier Soros Foundation

Vincent McGee Diamond Foundation

David Krieger Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Bill Pace WFM/IGP, INTGLIM-NGO Coalition for the ICC

Bettina Pruckmayr WFA-ICC Project

James Paul Global Policy Institute

Mena Anastasios Non c'e Pace Senza Giustizia

Carrie Sackett Non c'e Pace senza Giustizia

Juan Mendez Human Rights Watch

Richard Dicker Human Rights Watch

Chris Hall Amnesty International

Larry Cox Ford Foundation

Olara Otunnu IPA

Laurie Damrosh Columbia University

Jim Olson UNA/USA