Press Release: Declaration by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

The High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union, on 17 July 2013, stressed that the European Union and its Member States are strongly committed to preserving the independence of the International Criminal Court and to promoting the universality and integrity of the Rome Statute.