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Paper presented at the Workshop on "International Criminal Court: The Concerned Issues of China" Guiyang, China, 18-21 March 2006.
Summary
The key question addressed in this short paper is how the ICC can ensure it will be impartial or, in other words, act in the absence of any political motivation. Part II of this paper will review some of the concerns and debates during the negotiations of the Rome Statute and during the Preparatory Committee meetings, to illustrate that such concerns had been raised, debated and resulted in modifications to some of the provisions in the Rome Statute. Part III will examine the many safeguards contained in the Rome Statute to ensure the impartiality of the ICC. Part IV will briefly look at the efforts of the ICC Prosecutor to date as it will be the decisions of the Prosecutor that will help shape the perception of the ICC and determine it credibility.