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"First of all I wholly endorse what the honourable Member has said about the importance of the statute's inclusion of crimes of sexual violence as crimes against humanity when, as has been the case, they are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population. What we have seen in that context and in other criminal activities is of course the most powerful argument for us getting ahead with ratification of the convention by as many countries as possible.
I think I am right in saying that 160 nations decided to establish the international criminal court and the statute of the court was approved by about 120 states, so there should be no problem in moving from the 50 who have ratified to the 60 figure which we require in order to move things forward.
We have certainly pursued the importance of ratification with the United States. We do not, as the honourable Member will know, accept the US position on the ICC. We continue to argue our case with them and we will argue it with Russia and Japan and other countries as well. It comes up fairly regularly in our bilateral contacts and I would make sure that it did if that were not the case. We think this is potentially an extremely important institution, particularly in view of some of the appalling things that have happened in the last few years. The sooner the court can sit, the better for everyone."@en1
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