A consensus agreement on the crime of aggression: Impressions from Kampala

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 889-895

  Blokker, Niels ^a,b   Kress, Claus ^c  

^a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

crime of aggression; ICC Review Conference; International Criminal Court; Rome Statute; UN Security Council

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956316172     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156510000440     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. For the text, see Resolution RC/Res.6 as adopted at the 13th plenarymeeting, on 11 June 2010, by consensus, available at www.icc-cpi.int/ iccdocs/asp-docs/Resolutions/RC-Res.6-ENG.pdf.
2. For an example, see A. Zimmermann, 'Article 5', in O. Triffterer (ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2008), marginal note 39: 'Given the difficulties encountered both before and during the Rome Conference, as well as during the work of both the preparatory Commission as well as the SpecialWorking Group on the Crime of Aggression of the Assembly of States Parties so far in reaching a generally acceptable definition of the crime of aggression and in delimiting the appropriate role of the Security Council, and further taking into account the high threshold for an amendment of the Statute, it seems to be quite unlikely that the Parties to the Statutewill be able during the upcomingReviewConference to include the crime within the list of crimes for which the ICC has subject-matter jurisdiction.' Note that the last part of this sentence is inaccurate in the light of Art. 5(1)(d) of the ICC Statute.
3. The crucial preparatory work whichwas done within the SpecialWorkingGroup on theCrime ofAggression is most usefully documented in S. Barriga,W. Danspeckgruber, and C.Wenaweser (eds.), The Princeton Process on the Crime of Aggression:Materials of the SpecialWorking Group on the Crime of Aggression (2003-2009) (2009), passim.
4. For the final version of the substantive definition, see Art. 8 bis in conjunction with Art. 25(3 bis);
5. RC/Res. 6, supra note 1, Annex I sub 2 and 5;
6. for the final version of the Elements of the crime, see RC/Res.6, supra note 1, Annex II.
7. For the text, see RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex III, paras. 6 and 7.
8. For the text, see Art. 15 ter;
9. RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex I sub 4.
10. For the text, see Art. 15 bis (7);
11. RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex I sub 3.
12. For the text, see Art. 15 bis (5);
13. RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex I sub 3.
14. For the text, see Art. 15 bis (4);
15. RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex I sub 3.
16. For the text, see Art. 15 bis (8);
17. RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex I sub 3.
18. For references to the rich scholarly discussion, see N. Blokker, 'The Crime of Aggression and the United Nations Security Council', (2007) 20 LJIL 867;
19. C. Kress, 'The Crime of Aggression before the First Review of the ICC Statute', (2007) 20 LJIL 860, n. 54.
20. For the text, see Art. 15 bis (8) in fine;
21. RC/Res. 6, supra note 3, Annex I sub 3.