ICC's jurisdiction in Kingdom needs to be reviewed: Surapong
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The Foreign Ministry will first launch a review before deciding on whether an international inquiry on the 2010 political violence should be allowed.
The first step for the review would be to check if a committee, set up in 2000 to check the mandate of the International Criminal Court, is still in operation, Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said Wednesday.
“If getting ICC involved helps strengthen the justice system in Thailand, then I think it will be a good thing,” he said.
Surapong also reminded government critics to wait for the outcome of the review instead of hastily deciding to oppose plans to bring in the ICC.
He said that after Thailand became party to the Rome Statute, which prescribes to the ICC jurisdiction, it formed a committee to vet the court’s provisions and pave the way to ratification.
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