countries worldwide by July 2016. The Rome Statute was
signed, but not ratified by the Russian Federation, the United States, Egypt, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Israel and Iran. A number of countries including India and China fundamentally opposed to the idea of the ICC because of the limiting of the sovereignty of states and giving broad competence to court.
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Obstacles to Russia's ratification of the Rome Statute
are of specific constitutional character. These issues relate to:
a) persons whose immunity is provided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation; b) surrender of Russian citizens to the jurisdiction of the ICC at its request; c) issues of pardon and amnesty; d) legal proceedings with participation of a jury.
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Internal competence Genocide - intent to destroy a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, in whole or in
part.
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Crimes against humanity - part of large-scale or
systematic persecution directed against the civilian population. The offender
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Conditions for the implementation of the competence
ICC acts only if the state on which territory
the crime was committed or from what country the offender is does not wish to or can not actually carry out investigations and bring charges
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is limited in time and a speial concern is
for crimes committed after 1 July 2002 , fefore the Rome Statute came into force . If some conflict - for example , the war in Uganda - has been going on for twenty years, the Court's jurisdiction is limited to those acts which were committed there after July 1, 2002 .
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Territory limits of trial The jurisdiction of
the court includes only crimes that have been committed
on the territory of a certain state or by the citizen of this state.
) The UN Security Council passes the case to the Court ; 3 ) The ICC prosecutor begins an investigation in respect on its own initiative (proprio motu).