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What Is The Crime Of Aggression Is International Law

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What is the crime of aggression in international law
Introduction
The Rome Statute marked historic moments of consensus in international criminal law in 2002 as it entered into force. The first permanent international criminal Court (ICC) was established with the main aim of ending impunity, promoting judicial independency and reaffirming the position of the United Nations Charter (UNC).
The mandate of the Court is to try individuals and to hold such persons accountable for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, namely the crime of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression, when the conditions for the exercise of the Court’s jurisdiction over the latter are fulfilled.
In 1998 Rome Statute negotiation, the crime of aggression was listed among the major crimes under the Court’s jurisdiction in Article 5 of the Rome Statute but did not power the Court to use jurisdiction over the crime thus contrasting the other crimes(genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes). This was because the Statute did not define the crime or set out jurisdictional rules.
The Assembly of States Parties (“ASP”) created a Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression (“the Special Working Group”), to help in addressing such issues as the crime of aggression. This was driven by the fact that the Preparatory Commissions formed by the Rome Statute after the conclusion of the Rome Statute of June and July 1998, had not worked

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