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"Madam President, the Rome Statute system is a key instrument of the international community in combating impunity for the most serious crimes. As this Parliament will know, the EU is a long-standing supporter of the International Criminal Court. Witness to this is the promotion of the universality and implementation of the Rome Statute of the ICC in our political dialogue with partner countries.
The revised Cotonou Agreement is another instrument which we have to promote the strengthening of peace and international justice by seeking to ensure that our ACP partners ratify the Rome Statute.
We therefore note with concern that, at its July Summit, the African Union called on its Members not to execute the arrest warrants against President al-Bashir. The official visit of President al-Bashir to Chad in July, and Kenya’s invitation to al-Bashir to attend the ceremony promulgating its new constitution are also worrying signals from our African partners.
It is the EU’s view that Kenya must balance its legal and political obligations: it must abide by its obligations to the ICC as a State Party to the Rome Statute and it must respect its international law obligations, notably UN Security Council Resolution 1593.
As a supporter of the National Accord in Kenya, mediated by Kofi Annan, a key element of which is fighting impunity for the post-election violence, the EU will continue to encourage Kenya to cooperate with the ICC, including in our Article 8 dialogue.
We appreciate the fact that Kenya has upheld its commitment to cooperate with the ICC on internal issues, as demonstrated during the visit of the ICC registrar last week. We can but hope that Kenya adopts the same behaviour as far as international issues are concerned as well.
In keeping with the EU’s position on the ICC, on 27 August, the spokesperson of the High Representative and Vice-President issued a statement expressing concern over Kenya’s failure to arrest al-Bashir, and the EU delegation to Kenya was instructed to undertake a démarche to convey our messages to the government. That was done yesterday. I will convey to the High Representative the wish expressed during this debate that this issue be brought up in the context of the next African Union-EU meeting."@en1
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