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On Paying the Piper: Financial Responsibility for Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

W. Michael Reisman
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 615 - 618
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

References

1 SC Res. 1564, para. 12 (Sept. 18, 2004).

2 Letter Dated 31 January 2005 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council, UN Doc. S/2005/60, at 1.

3 Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur to the Secretary-General, id. at 2.

4 SC Res. 1593, para. 1 (Mar. 31, 2005).

5 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, July 17, 1998, 2187 UNTS 3, reprinted in 1 United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Official Records, UN Doc. A/CONF.183/13 (Vol. I) (2002) [hereinafter Rome Statute].

6 SC Res. 1593, supra note 4, para. 7. “Recognizes” is a curiously undirected action verb in the context, but was presumably inserted to accommodate U.S. policy, which is designed to preclude the Organization from contributing to or bearing the expenses of the Security Council’s referrals.

7 Rome Statute, supra note 5, Art. 114.

8 Id., Art. 115(b).

9 Arsanjani, Mahnoush H., Financing, in 1 The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary 315, 325 (Cassese, Antonio, Gaeta, Paola, & John R. W. D., Jones eds., 2002)Google Scholar.

10 Id.

11 See Arsanjani, Mahnoush H. & Michael Reisman, W., The Law-in-Action of the International Criminal Court, 99 AJIL 385 (2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 See 1 Morris, Virginia & Scharf, Michael P., An Insider’s Guide to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 325 n.842 (1995)Google Scholar; Arsanjani, supra note 9, at 325 n.39.

13 Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter), Advisory Opinion, 1962 ICJ Rep. 151 (July 20).