President Alberto Fernández held a meeting with Piotr Józef Hofmanski, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), with whom he renewed Argentina’s firm commitment and support to that institution in the fight against impunity for atrocious crimesthe promotion of human rights and the consolidation of the rule of law.
The first president was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Santiago Cafiero, at the meeting held in his office at Casa Rosadaofficial sources reported.
During the meeting, the President assured that after 20 years of its entry into force, the Rome Statute continues to be the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system and the hope of thousands of victims around the world who seek justice.
Also participating in the hearing were Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, current President of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), Argentine, recently retired career diplomat, who was also a judge (2010-2018) and president of the ICC (2015-2018); Matías Hellman, Foreign Relations Advisor to the President of the ICC; and Aaron Matta, Legal Officer of the Secretariat of the Assembly of States Parties.
Piotr Józef Hofmanski, a Polish national, took office as a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March 2015 and has been president of the court since March 2021.
He is in Argentina to participate in the 12th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians on the International Criminal Court and the Rule of Law (CAP-ICC) and the 43rd Annual Forum of Parliamentarians for Global Action, which will take place at the Congress of the Nation between tomorrow and Saturday.
The International Criminal Court (ICC), which was established through the Rome Statute, adopted in 1998, and entered into force in 2002, is a permanent criminal court and has 123 States Parties.
Argentina is recognized by its peers and civil society for having historically played a key role in the ICC, both in the negotiation of the Statute that created it and in its subsequent consolidation process.
In addition, it is the only State to have signed all the cooperation agreements with the ICC: protection and relocation of witnesses, provisional release, release and execution of sentences.
