Those negotiations made concrete progress last year in some difficult and controversial areas.

However, I stress that their impact on the efficiency of appeal proceedings has already been felt.

It would enhance accountability, increase the representation of developing countries and allow countries to be re elected and therefore to make their presence felt more strongly in this Organization.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the deterrent effect of the International Criminal Court has begun to be felt, with the announcement by the Prosecutor of the first inquiry of the ICC on its territory.