The responsibility to enforce - Connecting justice with unity

Legal Aspects of International Organization

Volumn 48, Issue , 2009, Pages 163-182

  Rastan, Rod ^a  

^a Office of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court   (Italy)

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1. See e.g. Pre-Trial Chamber examination of State cooperation with regard to the execution of its warrants of arrest: Prosecutor v. Joseph Kony et al., Order to the Prosecutor for the submission of additional information on the status of the execution of the warrants of arrest in the situation in Uganda, 30 November 2006.
2. Address by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the ICC, Building a Future on Peace and Justice, Nuremberg, 26 June 2007; available at www.icccpi.int/otp/otp-events/LMO-20070624.html.
3. Address by Philippe Kirsch, President of the ICC, to the United Nations General Assembly, 9 October 2006; available at .
4. Address by Philippe Kirsch, President of the ICC, to the United Nations General Assembly, 1 November 2007; available at www.icc-cpi.int/library/organs/presidency/PK-20071101-ENG.pdf.
5. Resolution ICC-ASP/5/Res.3, ICC-ASP/5/32, 1 December 2006, paras 30-36.
6. See discussion on the issue of the Court's compulsory powers in R. Rastan, 'Testing Cooperation: The International Criminal Court and National Authorities', (2008) 21 Leiden Journal of International Law 431.
7. See Blaškić Subpoena Interlocutory Appeal, recalling the Amicus curiae brief submitted by J. A. Frowein et al. for the Max Planck Institute;
8. ICTY, Appeals Chamber, Prosecutor v. Blaškić (IT-94-14), Judgment on the Request of the Republic of Croatia for Review of the Decision of Trial Chamber II of 18 July 1997, dated 29 October 1997.
9. 'Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights', in R. Falk (ed.), Human Rights and State Sovereignty (1981), 33.
10. For an elaboration of the characteristics of the horizontal vs vertical models see B. Swart, 'General Problems', in A. Cassese, P. Gaeta & J. Jones (eds.), The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (2002), 1591;
11. G. Sluiter, International Criminal Adjudication and the Collection of Evidence (2002), 87.
12. Report of the Secretary General, S/25704, 126.
13. See also S/RES/978 (1995)
14. and S/RES/1031 (1995).
15. Blaškić Subpoena Interlocutory Appeal, para. 26.
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18. See, inter alia, S/2004/616 (2004);
19. S/PRST/2004/34 (2004);
20. S/RES/1674 (2006);
21. A/RES/61/15 (2007);
22. and A/RES/62/12 (2007).
23. See Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001);
24. Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, A/59/565 (2004);
25. World Summit Outcome, A/60/L.1 (2005);
26. S/RES/1674 (2006).
27. A/60/L.1(2005), paras 138-139.
28. See Ramesh Thakur, 'Responsibility to Protect - and Prosecute?', The Hindu (10 July 2007); available at .
29. O. Triffterer (ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute (1999), p. 7.
30. K. Barnes, paper delivered at the Conference on Law, De Poort, the Netherlands 14-17 December 2006.
31. See Report of the Prosecutor at the Second session of the Assembly of States Parties, 8 September 2003, p. 4; .
32. see also Paper on some policy issues before the Office of the Prosecutor (2003), p. 5; .
33. ICC Press Release, 'Prosecutor receives referral of the situation in the DRC', ICC-OTP-20040419-50 (19 April 2004); .
34. Report on the activities performed during the first three years (3 Year Report) (June 2003 - June 2006), p. 7; .
35. See W. Schabas, 'The enigma of the International Criminal Court's success', OpenDemocracy. net (17 February 2006).
36. S/RES/1565(2005), 5 (g), but see 6.
37. See also interpretative statements on adoption S/PV5048.
38. See Memorandum of Understanding Between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court Concerning Cooperation between the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and the International Criminal Court, 8 November 2005; .
39. Year Report, para. 16.
40. On ongoing challenges for war crimes related trials in the DRC see, inter alia: Report of the independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Titinga Frédéric Pacéré);
41. A/HRC/7/25 (2008);
42. 'Chaos in the Courts', IWPR, AR No. 158, 27 February 2008;
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44. 3 Year Report, para 25.
45. See e.g. Bigombe, 'Others Criticize ICC Arrest Warrants', .
46. See e.g. International Crisis Group, Peace in Northern Uganda?, Africa Briefing No41, 13 September 2006.
47. Nuremberg Address (2007).
48. Address to the UNGA (2007).
49. S/RES/1593 (2005).
50. Situation in Darfur, (Defence) Conclusions aux fins d'exception d'incompétence et d'irrecevabilité, 9 October 2006, ICC-02/05-20, p. 16.
51. See C. Kress & K. Prost, in O. Triffterer (ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1999), p. 1061.
52. Third Report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to the Security Council pursuant to UNSC 1593 (2005) (14 June 2006); ;
53. Fifth Report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to the Security Council pursuant to UNSC 1593 (2005) (7 June 2007); .
54. see Prosecutor v. Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb, Prosecutor's Application under Article 58(7), 27 April 2007, ICC-02/05-56, paras. 270-278.
55. Sixth Report of the Prosecutor of the ICC, to the UN Security Council pursuant to UNSC 1593 (2005) (5 December 2007); available at .
56. Address to the UNGA (2007).
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58. Report of the Bureau on cooperation, ICC-ASP/6/21, 19 October 2007; available at .
59. See recommendations endorsed by ASP Resolution ICC-ASP/6/Res.2, 14 December 2007.
60. Address to the UNGA (2007).
61. Nuremberg Address (2007).
62. see also Security Council debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, S/PV.5319 (9 December 2005);
63. Nuremberg Address (2007).