Introduction

1. The Working Group on the Review Conference was established by the Assembly at the first meeting of its eighth session. Upon the recommendation of the Bureau, the Assembly appointed Mr. Marcelo Böhlke (Brazil) and Ms. Stella Orina (Kenya) as coordinators of the Working Group.

2. The Working Group held seven meetings, on 20, 21, 23, 24 and 25 November 2009 and two informal meetings on the stocktaking exercise, on 23 and 24 November 2009 respectively.

3. The Working Group had before it the Report of the Bureau on the Review Conference, the Report of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression and the Informal intersessional meeting on the Crime of Aggression, hosted by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Woodrow Wilson School, at the Princeton Club, New York, from 8 to 10 June 2009.

4. At its first meeting, on 20 November 2009, the facilitator for the crime of aggression, H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein (Jordan) briefed the meeting on the work that had been conducted at the informal intersessional meeting on the crime of aggression, which had considered the draft elements of crime. {. . .}