ASSEMBLY OF STATES PARTIES TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ELECT LIECHTENSTEIN’S PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE FOR SEVENTH THROUGH NINTH SESSIONS

International Criminal Court

Assembly of States Parties

Sixth Session

6^th Meeting (AM)*

ASSEMBLY OF STATES PARTIES TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ELECT LIECHTENSTEIN’S

PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE FOR SEVENTH THROUGH NINTH SESSIONS

The International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties this morning unanimously elected Christian Wenaweser ( Liechtenstein) as President for its seventh through ninth sessions. 

Having served as his country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since 2002, Mr. Wenaweser was designated in 2003 as Chairman of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression, and in that capacity had contributed greatly to the development of that issue.

Mr. Wenaweser said he was deeply honoured to have been elected in the present difficult and challenging time for the Court, and he looked forward to advancing all the issues that were important for it.

Under “other matters”, the representative of Italy made a procedural statement about the draft recommendation concerning the election of the Registrar of the Court, which will be taken up tomorrow.

The Assembly of States Parties will meet again at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Friday 14 December.

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*     The 5^th Meeting was not covered.

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