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Mongolia ratifies amendments to Rome Statue of International Criminal Court
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On January 31, the Parliament backed a bill ratifying the 2010 Amendment tthe Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which Mongolia signed in 2000 and ratified in 2002.
In 1998, at the Rome Conference that adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, crime of aggression was included as one of the crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.
However, participants to the Rome Conference could not agree on the definition of the crime nor on further conditions for the Court's exercise of jurisdiction; the Statute did not allow the Court to exercise such jurisdiction until these outstanding issues were solved.
In 2010, States Parties agreed to make amendments to the Statute adding the definition of the crime and the conditions for the exercise of jurisdiction over this crime.
