up the court, an international criminal court, for a long time, it culminated in 1998, when the rome statuterome. this is the idea that the international community... i tell you why i said that, though. some of the most significant members of the international community — china, russia, the united states — three of the five permanent members of the un security council — are not part of the icc. big countries — india, pakistan, indonesia — also not members. indeed, but there is also a large majority of the world community that are now enjoying the protection of international criminaljustice and the international criminal court. because if you look at today, the international criminal court enjoys 124 states that are parties to the rome statute and therefore part of the icc. and also, potentially, the icc could have a universal reach in the sense that we, as a court, can intervene in situations where the crimes are committed on the territory of a state party by whomsoever commits the crime, whether you are a state party or not, and the nationals of states parties where they commit crimes, wher

no, because, under the rome statute, this is not my mandate.lready been referred to the icc, then i can make periodical reports to update the un security council on where we are. what about allegations of torture by us personnel at bagram airbase in afghanistan? afghanistan is one of the signatory states to the rome statute, and it is member of the icc. would you open formal investigations, for instance? to be clear, afghanistan is a state party to the rome statute, as signed and ratified, and afghanistan is one of those situations that have been under preliminary examination for some time now before my office. including allegations against us personnel. and we are looking at allegations of all parties who form part of all the warring factions that are in afghanistan. professor kevin heller from london university's school of oriental and african studies says, the reason this hasn't been opened about us personnel as a formal investigation is that fatou bensouda cannot antagonise the united states. is there any truth in that? i just want to be cl

instrumental in the setting up of the international criminal court, which was established by the rome statutedo you think that has really helped prevent crimes against humanity, war crimes? do you think it's stopped these crimes being committed with impunity? it has helped, but not enough. certainly, the existence of laws prohibiting certain behaviour has some deterrent effect, but we have to bear in mind that, for centuries, we have glorified war—making. ever since david hit goliath in the head with a rock, we have glorified, the parades, the marching. no politician appears without his flags flying on all sides, and the bands going, and marching. and i was a soldier, and they gave me all the battle stars, and they gave me all the decorations and all that stuff. we've got to reverse those thousands of years of practice, because the world has changed. we're not throwing rocks any more. we're going to kill everybody. from cyberspace we can cut off the electrical grid of any city on the planet. are you all crazy?! you're standing here watching it happen. students don't have money to pay tuition.

instrumental in the setting up of the international criminal court, which was established by the rome statutehink that has really helped prevent crimes against humanity, war crimes? do you think it's stopped these crimes being committed with impunity? it has helped, but not enough. certainly, the existence of laws prohibiting certain behaviour has some deterrent effect, but we have to bear in mind that, for centuries, we have glorified war—making. ever since david hit goliath in the head with a rock, we have glorified, the parades, the marching. no politician appears without his flags flying on all sides, and the bands going, and marching. and i was a soldier, and they gave me all the battle stars, and they gave me all the decorations and all that stuff. we've got to reverse those thousands of years of practice, because the world has changed. we're not throwing rocks any more. we're going to kill everybody. from cyberspace we can cut off the electrical grid of any city on the planet. are you all crazy?! you're standing here watching it happen. students don't have money to pay tuition. the ref

whether crimes committed towards the regime, particularly torture, could be such a crime under the rome statute and therefore could be tried in the international court. so that is an institutional step we will be taking today and will likely announce tomorrow. thank you, mr. secretary general for your remarks and for sharing with us your perspective. [speaking in native tongue] [applause] >> translator: thank you. >> i would like to take this opportunity to announce the first in a tangible product as part of our venezuela strategy. truly understanding or better yet acting on the depth of the crisis requires adjusting some of the horrible numbers coming out of the country. our venezuela tracker is a one step comprehensive source on economic, political, social and financial crises. it is often unattainable, they get reliable data that we have gathered. andrea morte's, both in and out of venezuela. this is an ongoing effort and i invite all of you to go to atlantic council.org backslash venezuela tracker to find the latest numbers on what people are living through every day in a run hemisphere. to

the crimes committed by the regime, particularly torture, could be judged as crimes under the rome statute and, therefore, could be tried in the international courts. so that is an institutional step that we will be taking today and will likely announce tomorrow. thank you, mr. secretary-general for your remarks and fishing with those your perspectives -- >> your fight everyday a bit of the venezuelan people. >> thank you. >> while the stage is reset for a panel discussion i like to take this opportunity to announce the first new tangible product as part of our venezuela strategy. response to the fact that truly understand or better yet acting on the death of the crisis requires digesting some of the horrible numbers coming out of the country. our venezuelan tracker is a one-stop comprehensive source of up-to-date information on the economic, political, social and financial crises. it's a resource of hard to get often unattainable but yet reliable data that we have gathered led by two of my colleagues, working with a number of people and organizations both in and out of venezuela. this is