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| UN chief presses countries to join war crimes court
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 1-June-2010
10:45:5 AM |
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court(ICC) and rejected criticism the body was a court only for African crimes.
Delegates from member states are meeting in Kampala over the next 10 days to discuss the achievements of the ICC, set up in 2002 as the world's first permanent war crimes court, and seek to give it extra powers to prosecute crimes of state aggression.
"If the ICC is to have the reach it should possess ... we must have universal support, only then will perpetrators have no place to hide," Ban told delegates.
The ICC has mostly focused on African conflicts where governments referred cases, including Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebellion. Sudan's Darfur conflict was the first case to be referred to the court by the UN Security Council in 2005.
But Ban denied the court is being selective in only targeting African cases. "Even if it saddens me to say this, the evidence will take the court beyond Africa sooner rather than later," he said.
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