Czechia backs resolution in support of ICC

Czechia has joined over 90 countries in approving a resolution in support of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. “The ICC, as the world's first and only permanent international criminal court, is an essential component of the international peace and security architecture,” the resolution says. It calls on all states to ensure full co-operation with the Court for it to carry out its important mandate of ensuring equal justice for all victims of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.

The ICC was recently criticized by Israel, the US, and Czechia, after the court's chief prosecutor  requested an arrest warrant for both Hamas leaders and Israeli top officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fila said then that putting the representatives of a democratically elected government on a par with the leaders of an Islamist terrorist organisation was “appalling and completely unacceptable.”

The Czech Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the Czech Republic, as a party to the Rome Statute, was convinced of the independence of the court's decision-making and sees it as an essential international institution.