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Obviously, the States in question, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, had their own strategic objectives. Put simply, these appear to have been to use the Court in order to prosecute rebel bands within their own territory. 51 Tamely complying with these State Party referrals, he appeared to lose sight of his own prosecutorial priorities, as set out in the initial policy paper. Moreover, rather than encourage the two States to attempt prosecutions within their national justice systems, as the policy paper suggested, he eagerly took up the prosecutions himself, as if it hardly mattered whether domestic courts could handle the cases.
Canada relinquished the chair of the ‘like-minded’ when the legal advisor to its foreign ministry, Philippe Kirsch, was elected president of the Conference’s Committee of the Whole. But there were other caucuses and groupings at work, many of them reflections of existing formations within other international bodies, like the United Nations. The caucus of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was particularly active in its insistence that the crime of aggression be included within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the court.
2003-E N , 16 July 2003. Second Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Report of the Prosecutor of the I C C , Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, 8 September 2003. 36 an introduction to the international criminal court exercised his powers under Article 15. Instead, he soon took up situations that had been referred to him by States, in accordance with Article 14 of the Rome Statute. Obviously, the States in question, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, had their own strategic objectives.