States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 135 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5094-5145-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court are those sovereign States that have ratified or acceded to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. As of February 2013, 122 states are states parties to the Statute of the Court, including all of South America, nearly all of Europe and roughly half the countries in Africa. The Statute will enter into force for its 122nd state party, Ivory Coast, on 1 May 2013. A further 31 countries, including Russia, have signed but not ratified the Rome Statute; one of them, Ivory Coast, had already accepted the Court's jurisdiction before it ratified the Statute. The law of treaties obliges these states to refrain from "acts which would defeat the object and purpose” of the treaty until they declare they do not intend to become a party to the treaty. Three of these states—Israel, Sudan and the United States—have informed the UN Secretary...