Report of the International Criminal Court
Background
At its forty-ninth session, in 1994, the General Assembly, under the item entitled "Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-sixth session" (resolution 49/53), decided to establish an ad hoc committee to review the major issues arising out of the draft statute for an international criminal court prepared by the Commission, and to consider arrangements for the convening of an international conference of plenipotentiaries to conclude a convention on the establishment of such a court .
At its fiftieth session, the General Assembly established the Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (resolution 50/46). In 1998, the Assembly held a diplomatic conference of plenipotentiaries at which it adopted the Rome Statute [PDF] of the International Criminal Court and resolution F of the Final Act of the Conference, which established the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court. The Assembly continued its consideration of the item at its fifty-second to fifty-seventh sessions (resolutions 52/160, 53/105, 54/105, 55/155, 56/85 and 57/23). Following the entry into force of the Rome Statute on 1 July 2002, at the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth sessions, the item was entitled "International Criminal Court" (resolutions 58/79 and 59/43).
At its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly decided that the item should be entitled "Report of the International Criminal Court" (resolution 59/43).
At its sixty-first session, the General Assembly called upon States that had not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court; emphasized the importance of the full implementation of the Relationship Agreement between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court as well as the need for comprehensive information from the Secretary-General with respect to steps taken in the implementation of the Agreement; noted the establishment and operationalization of the International Criminal Court liaison office to United Nations Headquarters, and encouraged the Secretary-General to work closely with that office; recalled that, by virtue of article 12, paragraph 3, of the Rome Statute, a State which was not a party to the Statute might, by declaration lodged with the Registrar of the International Criminal Court, accept the exercise of jurisdiction by the Court with respect to specific crimes that were mentioned in paragraph 2 of that article; encouraged all States to consider participating in the work of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression with a view to elaborating proposals for a provision on the crime of aggression; and invited the International Criminal Court to submit a report on its activities for 2006- 2007, for consideration by the Assembly at its sixty-second session (resolution 61/15).
