Posted on 04/20/2002 5:40:29 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Annan urges States to ratify war crimes court's statute, as preparatory panel ends session
19 April- As the preparatory body laying the groundwork for the world's first permanent war crimes court wrapped up its latest session today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised the speedy ratifications of the Rome Statute and expressed hope that the tribunal would be functioning by mid-2003.
"Now with the unusually rapid entry of the Statute into force, we are witnessing a great victory for justice, and for world order - a turn away from the rule of brute force, and towards the rule of law," the Secretary-General said in his statement to the ninth session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court.
Last week, 10 countries deposited their instruments of ratification with the United Nations, bringing to 66 the total number of approvals, six more than is needed to bring the Rome Statute into force on 1 July.
In his remarks today, Mr. Annan urged the remaining 73 signatories to the Rome Statute to ratify the accord as soon as possible. "Indeed, ultimately all States should become parties to the Statute," he said. "As I said in Rome last week, the best defence against evil will be a Court in which every country plays its part."
Since the treaty was adopted in July 1998 in Rome, the Commission has had the task of negotiating the practical and technical arrangements necessary to allow the Court to function.
At this latest session at UN Headquarters in New York, the Commission was in the last stages of negotiations on the final remaining issues, including a first-year budget for the Court and administrative and financial matters connected to the initial meeting of the Assembly of States Parties, now expected to take place in September in The Hague.
The Commission also dealt with arrangements for the nomination and election procedure for judges, the prosecutor and the registrar, as well as their remuneration; and a trust fund for victims and witnesses. In addition, final details were being worked out concerning the principles that should govern the headquarters agreement with the Host Country of the Court, the Netherlands.
Have you seen this?
I'll tell ya just when I think Bush may have told the U.N. to go pound sand.
That's right, this is merely the culmination of the perverted, impeached former president's new world order.
Worse, it's the agenda of DIRTXPOTUS's paymasters. The private-sector ones, I mean, not his Chinese ones.
Like Horowitz says, it all comes together at the top. When the World Citizens sit down to carve us up, we may be screwed if all our pols are quietly on the bad guys' side.
Can you think of any pols in America who are actively opposing this stuff? Where the hell is Newt when you need him? Where's Rush on this stuff? I assume he's against an international criminal court -- which assumes an ultimate Power of the Gun -- and against schmoozy internationalist Leftists getting together with corporate bonzes to carve the proles. But where is the political leadership on these issues?
See how much damage it does to let Wall Street Republicans like the Bushes run the party?
Here's a short intro:
http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=BilderbergMore info here:The Bilderberg Conference is an annual three-day conference attended by more than one hundred of Europe's and North America's most influential bankers, economists, politicians, and government officials. The magazine Freedom Today [Vol. 22, No. 2] reports that Bilderberg membership is selected from the power élite of Europe and North America, and that Bilderbergers are conspiring to establish a 'new world order' with world government. Held in a different Western country every year and conducted in an atmosphere of rigid secrecy, the conference provides a private, informal environment in which those who influence national policies and international affairs can get to know each other and discuss their common problems. After each conference a private report of the meeting is circulated only to past and present participants, and in the report speakers are identified only by their country.
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