الجوانب القانونية للتوتر بين الاتحاد الإفريقي و المحكمة الجنائية الدولية

Abstract EN

The African Union has in recent times shown increasing opposition to the work of the International Criminal Court.

The paper examines the legal nature of the dispute between (ICC) and (AU).

The paper argues that the general principles of the regime of international law point to the interpretation of the provisions of the constitutions of the two international organizations to identify the extent to which they were empowered to make the decisions that resulted in the dispute.

The provisions of the Rome Statute on immunity are identified as providing the key to the resolution.

Accordingly the ICC shoud change its approach to the arrest of certain officials in order to prevent facilitating the violation of the principales of diplomatic immunity in international law.