MWANAUSWAHILI

 

THE President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, on Friday met and held talks with Tanzania’s Permanent Representative in the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Tuvako Manongi on the court’s operations, among other areas.

During the talks, Judge Gurmendi commended the Ambassador for his speech at the United Nations General Assembly when the report on ICC was tabled. 

 

According to the ICC president, the speech was well balanced and had cited recommendations of improving partnership between its members as per the Rome Agreement.

“I had followed through every point of your speech and took notes of all the points.

The speech delivered by Tanzania was outstanding and well balanced, I therefore applaud you for that,” noted Judge Gurmendi. She admitted that it was high time for stakeholders of the two sides to sit and discuss as per the recommendations by Tanzania and others, particularly on what had been termed as misinterpretation on some articles of the Rome Agreement which established the ICC.

On his part, Ambassador Manongi pointed out that the recommendations which were provided by Tanzania in collaboration with other countries do not aim to amend the Rome Agreement or trim down the courts powers.

“Our recommendations should not be misinterpreted, that our intentions are to trickle down the court’s powers, for we all believe that it should continue to exist.

We are still convinced that both parties’ views and points are credible, therefore what is needed is thorough discussions,” said Ambassador Manongi.