Welcome back to the Working Group on the Crime of Aggression and the continuation of our informal session. I think we had a really excellent discussion yesterday, marked by a very constructive spirit. I hope that we can continue in this vein.

You should all have received Revision 2 of the conference room paper. We sent it out by email last night, and hard copies were made available this morning. I would like to stress, first of all, that the new conference room paper represents another small step forward. The paper contains mainly two changes as compared to the previous version. Let me begin with the second change: the paper now has a new amendment entitled 3 bis, which would add a new article 15 ter on Security Council referrals. I hasten to add that this may be technically an additional amendment, but on substance there is absolutely nothing new in this article. In fact, what we have done is simply to split the old article 15 bis, by extracting the parts on the Security Council referral from it. Therefore, draft article 15 bis is now only dealing with proprio motu investigations and State referrals. The element of the Security Council referral has been taken out of that article, and been placed word for word into draft article 15 ter.