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"en.20020925.6.3-157"2
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"Madam President, the creation of the International Criminal Court constitutes a step forward for civilisation. In order to ensure, however, that the aims of the ICC are fully achieved and that International Law is given greater credibility, its universal implementation must be guaranteed. The European Union and its Member States are therefore required to take action to hinder the efforts of the United States of America to strip the ICC of any legitimacy, granting itself a privileged status of immunity by means of illegal bilateral agreements.
The primacy of the law in the international order over the balance of power and the law of the strongest is a noble-minded idea, which is still a long way from being fully realised. The primacy of the law in the international order will remain a pious fiction, however, if the world’s only existing superpower refuses to submit to the jurisdiction of the institutions responsible for overseeing the implementation of International Law.
Such a refusal would even constitute a serious step backwards, because it sends a terrible message to the world community, a sign of the irremediable weakness of principles and of the persistent power of cynicism in international relations. The great dilemma facing the international community today is therefore to choose between an order based on law and an order based on the simplistic opposition of the forces of good and evil, in the battle between which the law is seen merely as an unpleasant hindrance."@en1
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