ICC +1

by Kevin Jon Heller

The Czech Republic is set to become the 109th member of the ICC.  The lower house of the Czech parliament recently voted 140-6 in favor of ratifying the Rome Statute, which the country signed in 1999.  The upper house voted to ratify the Statute in July.

Kudos to the Czech Republic!

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4 Responses

  1. Yes, it is a great news. Yet, the ratification process still needs a signature of the president. And he is well-known for his, to put it mildly, scepticism towards ICC. So the signature is not automatic. But we all hope for the best. The Statute was ratified by a qualified 3/5 majority (because of constitutional issues) by the Parliament so lot of people think that he will not go against the constitutional majority.

    10.29.2008
    at 11:28 pm EST Jan Kratochvil

  2. Jan,

    Thanks for commenting.  I was curious about the signature issue, but couldn’t find anything on it.

    Kevin

    10.30.2008
    at 12:42 am EST Kevin Jon Heller

  3. Having in mind, that US is going to build in Czhechia anti-missile defence shield radar, Article 98 agreement will come into play soon?

    10.30.2008
    at 8:34 am EST Justinas

  4. I have not heard anything about Article 98 agreement yet. The danger might not be that great- to my knowledge from the EU states only Romania and Bulgaria have these agreements. There is already a final text of  the proposed bilateral <a href="http://www.psp.cz/sqw/text/orig2.sqw?idd=30465">SOFA</a> agreement (English text at the end of the document). It is a bit ambivalent on the issue of criminal jurisdiction, but in any case it applies only to the radar personnel and their families. 

    10.30.2008
    at 4:38 pm EST Jan Kratochvil

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