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ICC “double standards” denounced

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During a session of the Security Council devoted to Libya, and in reference to the “double standards” approach imposed on international institutions by the United States and its allies who support the Zionist entity in its aggression against the Palestinian population of Ghaza, the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations expressed, the day before yesterday Tuesday, its wish to see the support provided by the members of the Security Council for the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) extend to other issues linked in particular to violations in the occupied Palestinian territories and mass graves in the Gaza Strip, calling for criminal procedures to be handled far from any political exploitation. Algeria condemns all crimes committed “whoever the perpetrator and whoever the victim,” affirms the Algerian Mission, which added that penal work is purely technical, “being based on evidence and arguments and must not be exploited in order to guarantee its success. Algeria therefore calls for criminal proceedings to be handled far from any political exploitation.”
For Algeria, this is an “inevitable necessity so that the ICC proves to the whole world that it is not an instrument in the hands of certain members of the international community, to threaten whoever they want and whenever they want”.
Regarding the situation in Libya, Algeria reaffirms that “support for stability in this country and for an inclusive political solution to get the country out of the impasse, is the one and only way to guarantee justice and the sovereignty of the law,” added the Algerian Mission. The Mission recalled that what is happening in Libya is the common responsibility of all members of the international community (…), noting that “the continued circulation of weapons involving several countries perpetuates the crisis and fuels violence in all corners of the country.
UN sources indicate that Prosecutor Karim Khan presented Monday morning the twenty-seventh report of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in Libya, which the Security Council referred to the Court in 2011 (resolution 1970). He outlined his plan to complete the investigative activities of his office in Libya and launch the judicial phase which could start in 2025. For procedural reasons, Mr. Khan said he could not provide more details at this stage; he indicated that he planned to submit new requests for the issuance of arrest warrants in several of the priority lines of investigation. His office also intends to intensify its efforts in terms of arrest strategy, search for fugitives and preservation of evidence.
All this work cannot, however, be done without active cooperation between the Court and the national authorities. But this does not concern the Zionist entity and its criminal leaders, but Libya.
For the Russian Federation, the time has come to seriously evaluate the activities of the ICC in Libya from the point of view of its contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security, said its representative. Noting that the Prosecutor intends to finalize the investigation into the situation in Libya by the end of 2025, he noted that it will have lasted “no less than 14 years”. By way of comparison, he recalled that the activities of the Nuremberg Tribunal had lasted less than two years.
During all these years, the Russian delegate continued, the ICC transmitted 26 reports to the Security Council, “essentially to explain the reasons for its failure”, while three prosecutors succeeded one another and no arrest warrant was issued against the rebels.
Meanwhile, crimes committed by the NATO coalition have not been of greater interest to the ICC, he observed. “After 13 years of failures, the Council should admit that referring the Libyan case to the ICC was a mistake and decide to cancel it. “This is Russia’s conclusion that the Council has better things to do than listen to the meaningless reports of the Prosecutor of this “puppet body”.
China’s representative said the ICC must also avoid practicing “double standards” and any “exceptionalism” in preserving international fairness and justice.
Lakhdar A.