Prince Zeid Raad elected head of ICC governing body [Hashemite

AMMAN (JT) — Prince Zeid Raad, Jordan's permanent representative to the UN, is chairing the week-long session of the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which convened for the first time at the UN headquarters on Tuesday.

Prince Zeid was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC — a post he will hold for a three-year term. The assembly will be responsible for the actual establishment of the ICC, and for rendering it operational.

“Humanity will never truly advance, rest with its conscience, find comfort or peace, unless we do what we hitherto have been unable to do: Provide a global juridical instrument to deter those persons seeking to commit the gravest of crimes,” Prince Zeid told the assembly's first session in New York, on Tuesday, after his election.

Jordan is the only Arab country to have ratified the 1998 Rome Statute, establishing a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The court's jurisdiction is not retroactive and covers crimes committed after July 1, when the Rome Statute entered into force following its ratification by 78 countries.

The fruit of over 50 years of negotiations, the ICC has been considered the missing link in the international legal system. The International Court of Justice at The Hague handles only cases between states, not individuals, while ad hoc courts, such as the Nuremberg Tribunal, lacked permanence and had limited mandates.

The UN has said the ICC will help end conflicts, take over when national courts are unwilling or unable to act, and deter future war criminals.

After having served as Jordan's deputy permanent representative to the UN since June 1996, Prince Zeid was appointed permanent representative to the UN in August 2000.

During his period of service at the UN, Prince Zeid has chaired the informal working group on elements for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity — part of the work of the Preparatory Commission for the ICC. The Prince is presently chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Scope of Legal Protection under the Convention of the Safety of UN and Associate Personnel, as well as being coordinator for the Non-Aligned Movement on peacekeeping.

Prince Zeid holds a BA in political science from The Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in history from Cambridge University (Christ's College). He has served in the Jordan Armed Forces, and was a political affairs officer with UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia from February 1994 to February 1996. The author of publications on Jordanian and Arab history, Prince Zeid is married to Princess Sarah Zeid, and the couple have one son.

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DYNASTY: Hashimite

RELIGION: Islam (Sunni)

QUALIFICATIONS AND TITLES:
* Head of the Family: HRH The P^ce of Iraq
* Other Members of the Family: HRH P^ce, P^cessof Iraq

A member of the Hashemite family is pretending to Iraq as founder of a Constitutional Monarchy Movement, based in London: Sharif Ali ibn Alhussein (see Jordan, Children and descendants of Mohammed ibn Abd al Muin ibn Aun, Grand Sharif of Mecca 1.1.2.3)

ORDERS AND DECORATIONS: O. Rafidain (meaning O. Two Rivers) (Wisam al Rafidain) created 1922 retained by the Republic

O. Hashimites (Wisam al Hashimi) created 1932

O. King Faisal I created 1932

HEAD OF THE FAMILY: HRH P^ce Raad bin Zeid, Head of the Royal House of Iraq since 18 or 19/10/1970, Lord Chamberlain to the Royal Hashemite Court since 1975, Min of the Royal Hashemite Court 1974-1975, First Chamberlain to the Royal Hashemite Court 1963-1965, Pres of the Cttee in Charge of the Restoration of the Tombs of the Companions of the Prophet, Pres of the Jordanian Radio Amateur Assn, Pres of the Friendship Society for the Blind, Pres of the Friends of the Jordan Eye Bank, Pres of the Jordan Sports Federation for the Disabled, Pres of the Society of the Friends and Relatives of the Disabled, Vice Pres of the Jordanian-American Centre for Archaeological Research, Pres of the Jordanian-Scandinavian Friendship Society, Pres of the Jordanian-Swedish Medical Society, Pres of the Jordanian-French Medical Assn, Pres of the Petra Nat Trust, Pres of the Jordanian Special Olympics Organisation, Pres of the Jordan Olympic Cttee, Board mbr of the Arab Council for Child Development, Board mbr of the International Fund Sports for the Disabled, Dir Gen of Jordanian Youth Welfare Organisation 1965-1974, Research Asst at the Middle East Centre of Cambridge Univ 1960-1963, O.Renaissance 1966 and with Diamonds 12/1992 (Jordan), O.Star (Jordan) 1967, KCVO 1966, GCVO 1984, educ Victoria College, Alexandria, BA Christ College Cambridge Univ 1960, MA 1963, °Berlin 1936, X (civ) Södertelge, Sweden 30/6/1963 and (rel) Royal Palace, Amman 3/7/1963 Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind, who took the name of Majda on her conversion to Islam, °Arboga, Sweden 5/9/1942, daughter of Sven Gustav Lind and of Carin Inga Birgitta Gunlaug Grönvall (descendant of the illegitimate daughter of King Carl XI of Sweden) (Royal Palace, Amman, Jordan)

CHILDREN:
1 HRH P^ce Zeid bin Raad, °Amman 26/1/1964. Father of:
1.1 HRH P^cess Sarah bint Zei
2 HRH P^ce Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, °Amman 11/6/1965
3 HRH P^ce Firas bin Raad, °Amman 12/10/1969
4 HRH P^ce Faisal bin Raad, °Amman 7/3/1975
5 HRH P^cess ...

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Interesting.

Nevertheless, it is my prediction that the ICC will be only a propaganda tool. It will never be a functioning body.

But for propaganda purposes, it is very valuable. It, with the Kyoto nonsense, and the "sustainable development" nonsense, completes the toolkit and leaves the EU fully equipped to be a pain in our backside.

There is no way that the US will ever submit to it, and any effort to try an American soldier or politician would only bring the EU into a state of war with the US. I can predict that this will happen, but only as political theater. And the outcome will only humiliate the EU just as has our reaction to Kyoto.

No other country will be willing to submit to it as long as the US is not willing.

And, frankly, the court's only purpose is to give the Euro-lawyers power that their military can no longer justify.

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