Brussels, 05/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - Olivier Dupuis MEP, elected on the Bonino List, notes in a press release that, whereas all fifteen members of the EU signed the statute of the future International Criminal Tribunal to judge crimes of genocide and against humanity, only Italy has already ratified it, and that only France, Germany and Belgium have "entered the final phase of the ratification process", whereas news concerning the other eleven members of the Union "is not very precise, not to say discouraging" (also see EUROPE of ¾ January, p.17). You may recall 60 countries need to ratify for the Tribunal to be put in place.
Mr. Dupuis recalls that, in 1999, 6 countries ratified the status, these were: Senegal (2 February), Trinidad and Tobago (6 April), the Republic of San-Marino (28 April), Italy (30 June), Fiji (29 November) and Ghana (20 December).