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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the UN Security Council referring evidence of potential genocide by Daesh to the International Criminal Court.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the UN Security Council referring evidence of potential genocide by Daesh to the International Criminal Court.
Asked by
Hilary Benn
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Hammond of Runnymede
(Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
17 March 2016
For answer on
22 March 2016
Holding answer on
22 March 2016
Answered on
24 March 2016
The International Criminal Court Prosecutor set out some of the complicated issues involved in the ICC investigating Daesh in her statement of 8 April 2015. Under article 13 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Court may exercise its jurisdiction if a situation in a specified territory is referred to the Prosecutor by the UN Security Council. When efforts were made to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC in 2014, this proposed referral was vetoed by Russia and China. However, the Government remains committed to working with our international partners to ensure that Daesh is held to account for its crimes and that those who have suffered at its hand receive justice.
Subjects
Evidence; Genocide; International Criminal Court; UN Security Council; Islamic State
Date
24 March 2016
Reference
31584
House
House of Commons