Inaugural session of the conference for the establishment of an International Criminal Court by the year 1998 [Sergio Stanzani]

Abstract

Honourable Prime Minister, Commissioner Bonino, Excellencies, Representatives of the Mediterranean Countries, Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends. First of all we wish to express our thanks to Malta for its hospitality and to its Prime Minister for his significant presence at the opening ceremony of this conference. We appreciate this occasion and look forward to the discussion on a topic which is, after all, the raison d'etre of our association: that there can be no peace without justice. It is from this point of view that my thanks, as President of the Committee of Parliamentarians, Mayors and Citizens "No Peace without Justice", go first of all to the University of Malta and the Foundation for International Studies for their proposal to make Malta one of the hubs of our international campaign having the scope of ensuring that an International Criminal Court may finally be set up in 1998. [excerpt]