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The United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (ICC) took place in Rome at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization from June 15 to July 17, 1998. The participants numbered 160 states, thirty-three intergovernmental organizations and a coalition of 236 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The conference concluded by adopting the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court by a nonrecorded vote of 120 in favor, 7 against and 21 abstentions. The United States elected to indicate publicly that it had voted against the statute. France, the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation supported the statute.
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It] is axiomatic that the International Tribunal must fully respect internationally recognised standards regarding the rights of the accused at all stages of its proceedings. In the view of the Secretary-General, such internationally recognised standards are, in particular, contained in article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 4 See 1994 Yearbook of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 24 (1995), UN Sales No. E.95.ULP2. See also Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Former Yugoslavia Since 1991, UN Doc. n732/Rev.9 (5 July 1996) (hereinafter ICTY Rules). Address of the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, to the United Nations General Assembly, UN Doc. A/5I/PV59 at 6 (19 Nov. 19%). 4 Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Security Council Resolution 808 (1993) para. 106, UN Doc. UN S/25704 (3 May 1993) (hereinafter Report of the Secretary-General).
With so much violation of customary international law on warfare by States and their agents as a resort to the use of force that led to grave humanitarian crisis in the last two decades and especially, the hardship experienced at the Battle of Solferino, there was the need to regulate the conduct of hostilities in order to abate such grave humanitarian crisis and bring violators to book. This was the very reason for the desire to protect conducts of the use of force which birth the use of multilateral treaties. Some of such modern multilateral treaties include The Hague