A/RES/57/23. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2002

• Resolution Number: A/RES/57/23
• Session: 57th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/57/23

General Assembly Distr.: General

3 February 2003

Fifty-seventh session

Agenda item 158

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/57/565)]

57/23. Establishment of the International Criminal Court

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 47/33 of 25 November 1992, 48/31 of 9 December

1993, 49/53 of 9 December 1994, 50/46 of 11 December 1995, 51/207 of

17 December 1996, 52/160 of 15 December 1997, 53/105 of 8 December 1998,

54/105 of 9 December 1999, 55/155 of 12 December 2000 and 56/85 of

12 December 2001,

Noting

that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted

on 17 July 1998

1

and entered into force on 1 July 2002,

Noting also

that the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal

Court, established in accordance with resolution F of the Final Act of the United

Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an

International Criminal Court,

2

held its ninth and tenth sessions from 8 to 19 April

and from 1 to 12 July 2002, respectively, and thus successfully completed its

mandate in accordance with that resolution,

Recalling

the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted at the

Millennium Assembly,

3

in which heads of State and Government stressed the

importance of the International Criminal Court,

Reiterating

the historic significance of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the

International Criminal Court,

1.

Calls upon

all States that are not yet parties to the Rome Statute of the

International Criminal Court

1

to consider ratifying it or acceding to it without delay,

and encourages efforts aimed at promoting awareness of the results of the United

Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an

International Criminal Court, held in Rome from 15 June to 17 July 1998, the

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1 Official Records of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment

of an International Criminal Court, Rome, 15 June–17 July 1998, vol. I: Final documents (United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.02.I.5), sect. A.

2 Ibid., sect. B.

3 See resolution 55/2.