Examples of using Statute could in English and their translations into Russian
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No criminal statute could expand or diminish the Council's vested power.
Conferral of automatic jurisdiction with respect to the crimes included in the Statute could run counter to the principle of complementarity.
Only signatories to the Statute could be considered as members of the Assembly of States Parties.
Paragraph 4 of the first version of article 7,under which a State not a party to the Statute could agree to the competence of the Court, was acceptable.
The Statute could even have included terrorism as one of the crimes recognized by the Court.
Despite its many shortcomings, the statute could serve as a basis for future negotiations.
It was, however, also viewed as calling for further elaboration so that its implications for the substantive provisions of the draft statute could be fully understood.
For example, the statute could stipulate that the second judge be deemed to have resigned from his appointment.
With regard to article 23, Ethiopia felt that only States parties to the statute could and should be entitled to lodge a complaint with the court.
In addition, the statute could leave room for a sphere of exclusive jurisdiction of the court for individual States, through declarations or agreements with the court.
Using the term"race" in the wording of the statute could have the effect of confirming such notions.
The statute could be suspended during the period where a legal provision or unforeseen circumstance hindered the commencement or continuation of criminal proceedings.
Furthermore, as currently worded the court's draft statute could be amended to include the crimes covered by the draft Code.
Like the representative of Australia, it believed that the Greek proposal to avoid specific descriptions andto refer to the IAEA Statute could be an acceptable solution for everyone.
It seemed possible that a statute could be adopted by a conference of plenipotentiaries in the very near future.
However, certain elements of the Statute posed problems with regard to the Kazakh Constitution, and the Statute could only be ratified once they had been resolved.
It was recognized that the statute could not specify all rules, nor could it predict all types of issues which might come before the court.
Incorporating the concept of the criminal responsibility of legal persons orcriminal organizations into the Statute could create more problems than it resolved, notably in terms of the relevant definitions.
He hoped that the draft Statute could be considered in the near future at a conference of plenipotentiaries and that the international criminal court would finally become a reality.
The International Court of Justice, in its Advisory Opinion on the question, had confirmed that the use of nuclear weapons would be a contravention of international humanitarian law; andthe fact that no convention banning their use had been negotiated did not mean that the Statute could ignore their existence.
Secondly, the provisions concerning jurisdiction in the Statute could create a situation in which non-parties assumed more obligations than parties.
The special statute could also make provision for charging defendants with international crimes that were recognized as of 1975, even if such crimes were not included in the Code Pénal.
Nor was it right, in his view,that crimes of the seriousness of those dealt with in the draft statute could be punished by a mere fine or that a fine could be imposed but terms of imprisonment of months were excluded.
It was also suggested that the statute could provide a mechanism under which the court would elaborate the elements similar to the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Concern was also expressed that providing for different definitions of the crime of genocide in the Convention and in the statute could result in the International Court of Justice and the international criminal court rendering conflicting decisions with respect to the same situation under the two respective instruments.
The view was also expressed that the statute could provide an amendment or review procedure that would enable the States parties to the statute to add other offences at a later stage.
Draft articles 34, 35 and 36 would provide adequate safeguards against any abuse and the statute could envisage that complainant States must also have accepted the court's jurisdiction in respect of the crimes for which they were lodging a complaint.
The United States Government is deeply concerned that the draft statute could undermine the extensive investigative work undertaken in national prosecutions of international terrorists and narcotics traffickers, and of war criminals.
As between States Parties to the International Criminal Court, participation in the Statute could override earlier inconsistent treaty obligations(see article 30 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties) but would it be desirable to have an express provision in the Statute stating so?
Article 52(5) of the Polish Constitution stipulated that anyone whose"Polish origin" had been confirmed in accordance with statute could settle permanently in Poland, and he wondered what was meant by the term"Polish origin": did it mean ethnic or national origin and did that provision of the Constitution, read in the context of article 12, paragraph 4, of the Covenant, mean that only persons of Polish origin could consider Poland as their own country?