STATES WARN LEGAL COMMITTEE THAT NEW INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT MUST NOT BE ABUSED FOR POLITICAL ENDS

Press Release
GA/L/3117/

STATES WARN LEGAL COMMITTEE THAT NEW INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT MUST NOT BE ABUSED FOR POLITICAL ENDS

CORRECTION

On page eight of Press Release GA/L/3117 issued 22 October, the statement of the representative of Lebanon should read as follows:

HOUSSAM ASAAD DIAB (Lebanon), also exercising the right of reply, said Israel had committed odious crimes. The crime of displacement of the civilian population, which the representative of Israel did not consider important, had been committed by the Israeli Government. It should not go unpunished. The Secretary-General had stated in his report to the fifty-third session of the General Assembly on strengthening of the coordination of the humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations (A/53/213) that the Israeli occupation had created countless victims and caused untold suffering to the people of Lebanon. The economy of Lebanon had been severely damaged. He reaffirmed the need and the importance of having a legally acceptable definition of the crime of aggression and of the elements of the crime of transfer of population. These crimes constitute serious violations of human rights, international customary law, and the Fourth Geneva Convention. The ICC should deem them crimes.

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