EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ON NATION-STATE SOVEREIGNTY

The United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiories on the Establishment of The International Criminal Court was held on 15 June 1998 in Rome. The Statute of the International Criminal Court was acknowledged on 17 July 1998, declared as the final of the Rome Conference, and came into effect on 1 July 2002. Nonetheless, one should act with discretion about the Court and its course with regards to the nation state sovereignty. As, in the treaty that has established the Court there are provisions that limitate state sovereignty. Some of these limitations are; Article 12/2 “territoriality criteria”, “the principle of complementation” formulated in the tenth paragraph of the Preamble and the competence of Security Council over the runnig of the Court defined in Article 13/b and Article 16. According to the analysis through these findings, it is certainly observed that the existance of the International Criminal Court has different and special meanings for international law and nation state sovereignty. In this context, according to the common acceptance in contemporary international law, almost all universal law applications contradict with the claims of sovereignty in some way. The intervention process to nation states‟ judicial sovereignty has reached its final form with the establishment of International Criminal Court.