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1 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, art. 1, Jul 1, 2002, 2187 U.N.T.S. 3.

2 See Marlise Simons, Milosevic Trial Settles into Slow but Judicious Routine, N.Y. TIMES, March 3, 2003, at A4.

3 See David Johnson, Officer-in-Charge, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal, Address at the Nepal Bar Association: Accountability and the International Criminal Court (Aug. 6, 2006)(available at: http://nepal.ohchr.org/en/resources/Documents/English/statements/HCR/Year2006/2006_08_06_HCR_DJ_Speech_NBA.pdf)

4 John Rosenthal, A Lawless Court: How the International Criminal Court Undermines the UN System, Hoover Institution Policy Review, available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3439981.htm

5 See e.g., Ninth Diplomatic Briefing of the International Criminal Court, Compilation of Statements, Statement of the Prosecutor, March 29, 2007, p. 6 ("Our common challenge of course is to ensure implementation of the Rome Statute; in this case it requires the enforcement of the arrest warrants. It is the law.") (viewed October 23, 2007, http://www.icc-cpi.int/library/about/ICC_DB9_St_En.pdf).