Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Table of documents
- I Introduction to the negotiation history
- II Amendments to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression
- III Historical documents
- IV Travaux Préparatoires of the Amendments to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression (1995–2010)
- 1995 Ad Hoc Committee
- 1996 Preparatory Committee, First and Second Session
- February 1997
- December 1997
- January 1998
- March/April 1998
- 1998
- February 1999
- July/August 1999
- November/December 1999
- March 2000
- November/December 2000
- February/March 2001
- September/October 2001
- April 2002
- July 2002
- September 2002
- September 2003
- June 2004
- June 2005
- December 2005
- June 2006
- November 2006
- January 2007
- June 2007
- December 2007
- 111 2007 Chairman's Non-Paper on Defining the Individual's Conduct
- 112 2007 Proposal by Venezuela
- 113 2007 SWGCA Report (December)
- June 2008
- November 2008
- February 2009
- April 2009
- June 2009
- November 2009
- March 2010
- May/June 2010
- V Index of Travaux Préparatoires
111 - 2007 Chairman's Non-Paper on Defining the Individual's Conduct
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Table of documents
- I Introduction to the negotiation history
- II Amendments to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression
- III Historical documents
- IV Travaux Préparatoires of the Amendments to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression (1995–2010)
- 1995 Ad Hoc Committee
- 1996 Preparatory Committee, First and Second Session
- February 1997
- December 1997
- January 1998
- March/April 1998
- 1998
- February 1999
- July/August 1999
- November/December 1999
- March 2000
- November/December 2000
- February/March 2001
- September/October 2001
- April 2002
- July 2002
- September 2002
- September 2003
- June 2004
- June 2005
- December 2005
- June 2006
- November 2006
- January 2007
- June 2007
- December 2007
- 111 2007 Chairman's Non-Paper on Defining the Individual's Conduct
- 112 2007 Proposal by Venezuela
- 113 2007 SWGCA Report (December)
- June 2008
- November 2008
- February 2009
- April 2009
- June 2009
- November 2009
- March 2010
- May/June 2010
- V Index of Travaux Préparatoires
Summary
(Paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Chairman's paper)
The present non-paper is aimed at facilitating discussions at the meeting of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression during the sixth session of the Assembly of States Parties in New York (30 November to 14 December 2007) with respect to paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Chairman's paper, dealing with the definition of the individual's conduct. As reflected in paragraphs 5 to 13 of the report of the 2007 intersessional meeting at Princeton, broad support had been expressed for earlier proposals by the Chairman on this rather technical issue. During the 2007 Princeton meeting, a revision of the latest proposal was circulated, which included the leadership clause as part of the definition of the crime. This revised proposal was included in the 2007 Princeton report, and received positive preliminary reactions.
The Chairman would therefore suggest that discussions in New York regarding the definition of the individual’s conduct should focus on this proposal, which is reprinted below:
Proposed language to replace the first part of paragraph 1 of the Chairman’s paper, replacing both variant (a) and (b):
For the purpose of this Statute, “crime of aggression” means 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/armed attack, [which, by its character, gravity and scale . . .]
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