SENATE BILL: Rome Statute of International Criminal Court (At Final Vote)

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification

The Senate advises and consents to the ratification of the treaty between the Republic of Atlasia and the United Nations, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Sponsor: Averroës Nix

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senator you have 24 hours to advocate for this bill.

[Ѕenator Αverroës]

The International Criminal Court came into being in 2002; it is a permanent tribunal established to prosecute individuals for genocide and other serious international crimes. Although Atlasia signed onto the Rome Statute during the Clinton administration, it has never been ratified (nor has it been submitted to the Senate for ratification).

Recognizing this agreement - which contains a guarantee to due process and fair treatment - will strengthen an international institution that promotes the spread of peace and universal recognition of basic human rights. As a leader in the global community, we must promote the rule of international law. In the service of this goal, we can accept nothing less than full participation and cooperation with the International Criminal Court.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What are "other serious international crimes"?

[Ѕenator Αverroës]

What are "other serious international crimes"?

• crimes against humanity: definition

• war crimes, when they are ""part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes"

• the "crime of aggression": "the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations." (detailed definition)

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I know there definitions, I just wanted a conlusive list here. Is that all of them, though?

[Ѕenator Αverroës]

Yes.

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

This bill has my full support.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Final vote tomorrow evening? That is when the minimum debate time ends.

[Ѕenator Αverroës]

Sounds good, Yankee.

Edit: I really hope that the lack of discussion here indicates that this will pass unanimously.

[Senator MaxQue]

Averroës: I said nothing because I support this and nobody defended the other side, so.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators, this is now at final vote, plese vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Ѕenator Αverroës]

Aye

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Senator MaxQue]

Aye

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Aye

[Senator X]

Aye

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

Aye