Global Coalition Urges Sri Lanka to Ratify International Criminal Court Treaty
Ratification Would Strengthen Peace Process and Asia’s Voice in the Fight Against Impunity

(New York, 2 August 2005) – In a letter sent today to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Lakshman Kadirgamar, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) – an international coalition of more than 2,000 non-governmental and civil society organizations that support the International Criminal Court (ICC) – urged Sri Lanka to accede to the Rome Statute of the ICC, the treaty that created the first permanent global court capable of trying individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. In their letter, the CICC urges Sri Lanka to join its neighbors in Asia including Cambodia, East Timor, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Tajikistan and, most recently, Afghanistan, who are all ICC member states, in order to help strengthen Asia’s voice within the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC.

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