We speak with special feeling in today’s meeting on the issue of the international law of the sea, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982. We echo words spoken yesterday and today on the historic signif…
We would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Mr. Peter Tomka, for his briefing.
The Organization’s calendar year began with the holding of the landmark High-level Meeting on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, held on 24 September. That was a com…
We thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr. Sang-Hyun Song, for his report (see A/67/308), and we welcome Ms. Fatou Bensouda to her position as Prosecutor of the Court.
Today’s meeting coincides with the tenth anniversary of the founding of the ICC. We therefore have more …
We thank the Presidents of the Tribunals for the presentation of their reports. We appreciate the updated information on the progress of the work of both bodies in the current final stage of their mandate, largely within the perspective of the opening in July of the Rwanda branch of the Internationa…
First of all, let me express our appreciation to the Presidents of both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their reports (A/65/205 and A/65/188). The Russian Federation is inalterably committed to the ide…
We wish to express our gratitude to the Presidents of the Tribunals for their respective reports. We consider those reports important, especially now, after the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1966 (2010), which set out a time frame and parameters for launching the International Residual M…
