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GABRIEL ROJAS

The States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court are those countries that have ratified or acceded to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. As of April 2011, 114 states are members of the court, including all of South America, nearly all of Europe and roughly half the countries in Africa. For Grenada, the 115th state party, the Statute will enter into force on 1 August 2011. A further 34 countries, including Russia, have signed but not ratified the Rome Statute one of them, Côte d'Ivoire, has accepted the Court's jurisdiction. The law of treaties obliges these states to refrain from “acts which would defeat the object and purpose” of the treaty. Three of these states—Israel, Sudan and the United States—have "unsigned" the Rome Statute, indicating that they no longer intend to become states parties and, as such, they have no legal obligations arising from their former representatives' signature of the statute. 44 United Nations member states have neither signed nor ratified or acceded to the Rome Statute; some of them, including China and India, are critical of the court. The Palestinian National Authority, which neither is nor represents a United Nations member state, has formally accepted the jurisdiction of the Court It is unclear, however, if this acceptance is legally valid
The Court can automatically exercise jurisdiction over crimes committed on the territory of a State Party or by a national of a State Party. States Parties must co-operate with the Court, including surrendering suspects when requested to do so by the Court.
States Parties are entitled to participate and vote in proceedings of the Assembly of States Parties, which is the Court's governing body.

One of the men went to icc was Robert Mugabe finally delivers on the promise of Nuremberg that political and military leaders who mass-murder their own people. Muammar Gaddafi is the worst man left in the world, the prime example of “impunity”—that legal defect which allows criminals who are heads of state to live happily after their crimes.