Statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States on the Annual Report of the ICC to the UN General Assembly

On October 31, 2016, the UN General Assembly met to consider the annual report of the International Criminal Court. At the meeting, the representative of the European Union said the following:

"With twenty-three cases in ten situations at different stages of the proceedings, eleven situations under preliminary examinations and one new investigation by the Prosecutor, the ICC is, this year again, facing an increasing workload. It is worth noting that the ICC is now conducting preliminary examinations and situation investigations in most regions of the world - that is in Latin America, in Asia, in Africa and in Europe..."