Introduction

1. The Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court held seven meetings on 4, 5, 6, 7 and 12 December 2007. Ambassador Christian Wenaweser (Liechtenstein) served as Chair of the Special Working Group.

2. The Secretariat of the Assembly of States Parties provided the substantive servicing for the Group.

3. The discussions in the Special Working Group were held on the basis of the discussion paper proposed by the Chairman in January 2007 (hereinafter “2007 Chairman’s paper”).1 In addition, the Group had before it the report of an informal intersessional meeting of the Group held from 11 to 14 June 2007 at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University (“2007 Princeton report”), which included in various annexes a non-paper on the exercise of jurisdiction submitted by the Chairman (“non-paper on the exercise of jurisdiction”)3 and a non-paper on defining the State act of aggression also submitted by the Chairman (“non-paper on the act of aggression”). At the beginning of the meeting, a further non-paper on the definition of the conduct of the individual (“non-paper on the individual’s conduct”)5was circulated.

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