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DATELINE: 14 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
14 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
“And today, in this my sixth report to the Council, the 27th in total, I think that we have a landmark moment by announcing a roadmap in relation to what could be the completion of the investigative stage in terms of Resolution 1970.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
“Rather the roadmap I have detailed in the report represents I think, a genuine, a dynamic vision for the fulfillment of the mandate that you entrusted to us. It details a focused set of activities that will implement, God willing, in the next 18 months and beyond, to significantly expand the impact of our action in the Libya situation. And the roadmap is a collective work. We are not the only operator on the international level. We have to work shoulder to shoulder with the authorities in Libya, with the Council, with all State parties.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
“The first is the intention, the hope, the target to complete the investigative stage from now and by the end of 2025. That's the investigative stage of the situation. Of course it's not going to be easy. It's going to require cooperation, candor, a can-do attitude from my office, but also from the authorities in Libya.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
“The second part is judicial and complementarity. Because following, if that goes to plan, following the end of 2025, we want to move posture and try to help and support Libya - that can start now - technical assistance, burden sharing, trainings, know-how, use of artificial intelligence technology and technical skills of building these types of cases and focus again with Libyan colleagues on arrest and tracking.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taher El Sonni, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Libya: “We stress that justice on Libyan soil is a sovereign duty, it is our jurisdiction. The Libyan judiciary is committed to ensure fair trials for all those who are suspected no matter how long it takes. The crimes committed are not subjected to a statute of limitation according to the Libyan penal code. We stress once again that our cooperation with the ICC, according to its mandate, is complementary to national judiciary and is never substitute thereof.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taher El Sonni, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Libya:
“What are you waiting for Mr. Khan? The world is wondering do you need more evidence? Do you need more clues? Don't you see the threats that against civilians, the potential threats against civilians in Rafah, and the massacre would happen at any time? This is the actual test of the ICC. Is the ICC politicized or is it independent and neutral because its independence have always been called into question. And now it is actually at stake.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE(English) Pascale Christine Baeriswyl, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations:
“We welcome the efforts undertaken by the prosecutor's office and the progress achieved in all lines of inquiry identified in the renewed strategy for action on the situation in Libya. In continuation of this strategy, we welcome the development of a roadmap for completion of the investigative phase. And in this respect, we stress the importance of taking into account the views of all stakeholders, including victims and survivors. We positively note that the cooperation between the Libyan Government and the prosecutor's office has increased, and we encourage further progress in this regard. Such cooperation is indispensable not only for the conclusion of the investigative phase, but also throughout the prosecutorial and judicial phases.”
16. Wide shot, ambassadors at the press encounter
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Shino Mitsuko, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“We reiterate that we will continue to comply with our cooperation obligations under the Rome Statute and urge all states to fully support the court in carrying out its important mandate of ensuring justice for the victims of the most serious crimes under international law. Finally, we reconfirm our unwavering support for the court as an independent and impartial judicial institution. We reiterate our firm commitment to uphold and defend the principles and values enshrined in the Rome Statute and to preserve its integrity and determined by any threats or measures against the court, its officials and those cooperating with it.”
18. Wide shot, ambassadors leaving the press encounter
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan said, “in this my sixth report to the Council, the 27th in total, I think that we have a landmark moment by announcing a roadmap in relation to what could be the completion of the investigative stage in terms of Resolution 1970.”
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court today told the Council that the roadmap that is detailed in the report represents “a genuine, a dynamic vision for the fulfillment of the mandate” that the Council entrusted to ICC.
Khan explained, “It details a focused set of activities that will implement, God willing, in the next 18 months and beyond, to significantly expand the impact of our action in the Libya situation.”
He reiterated, “the roadmap is a collective work. We are not the only operator on the international level. We have to work shoulder to shoulder with the authorities in Libya, with the Council, with all State parties.”
The Prosecutor also said, “The first is the intention, the hope, the target to complete the investigative stage from now and by the end of 2025. That's the investigative stage of the situation. Of course it's not going to be easy. It's going to require cooperation, candor, a can-do attitude from my office, but also from the authorities in Libya.”
“The second part is judicial and complementarity.,” he added, “because following, if that goes to plan, following the end of 2025, we want to move posture and try to help and support Libya - that can start now - technical assistance, burden sharing, trainings, know-how, use of artificial intelligence technology and technical skills of building these types of cases and focus again with Libyan colleagues on arrest and tracking.”
Libyan Ambassador Taher El Sonni stressed that “justice on Libyan soil is a sovereign duty, it is our jurisdiction. The Libyan judiciary is committed to ensure fair trials for all those who are suspected no matter how long it takes. The crimes committed are not subjected to a statute of limitation according to the Libyan penal code.”
Ambassador Sonni added, “We stress once again that our cooperation with the ICC, according to its mandate, is complementary to national judiciary and is never substitute thereof.”
On the investigation whether crimes have been committed in the Palestinian territories as part of Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks, the Libyan Ambassador said, “What are you waiting for Mr. Khan? The world is wondering do you need more evidence? Do you need more clues? Don't you see the threats that against civilians, the potential threats against civilians in Rafah, and the massacre would happen at any time? This is the actual test of the ICC. Is the ICC politicized or is it independent and neutral because its independence have always been called into question. And now it is actually at stake.”
Speaking after the Council’ s meeting, Swiss Ambassador Pascale Christine Baeriswyl and Japanese Ambassador Shino Mitsuko made a statement on behalf of the members of the Security Council that States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court the ICC, Ecuador, France, the IANA Malta, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, Japan and Switzerland.
Ambassador Baeriswyl said, “We welcome the efforts undertaken by the prosecutor's office and the progress achieved in all lines of inquiry identified in the renewed strategy for action on the situation in Libya. In continuation of this strategy, we welcome the development of a roadmap for completion of the investigative phase. And in this respect, we stress the importance of taking into account the views of all stakeholders, including victims and survivors.”
She continued, “We positively note that the cooperation between the Libyan Government and the prosecutor's office has increased, and we encourage further progress in this regard. Such cooperation is indispensable not only for the conclusion of the investigative phase, but also throughout the prosecutorial and judicial phases.”
Japanese Ambassador Mitsuko said, “We reiterate that we will continue to comply with our cooperation obligations under the Rome Statute and urge all states to fully support the court in carrying out its important mandate of ensuring justice for the victims of the most serious crimes under international law.”
She concluded, “we reconfirm our unwavering support for the court as an independent and impartial judicial institution. We reiterate our firm commitment to uphold and defend the principles and values enshrined in the Rome Statute and to preserve its integrity and determined by any threats or measures against the court, its officials and those cooperating with it.”
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