Afghan Delegation Heads to The Hague for Talks with ICC Officials
A delegation led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar left for The Netherlands to hold talks with the International Criminal Court prosecutor.
Justice Minister Fazel Ahmad Manawi, Acting Attorney General Zabihullah Kalim, and a number of senior government officials and judiciary and security experts are part of the delegation, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) operates under the Rome Statute, and Afghanistan has been a member of the Tribunal since 2003.
The International Criminal Court shall use its complementary jurisdiction to assist the Member States in dealing with international crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, the statement says.
EIU’s Democracy Index Brands Afghanistan as Authoritarian Regime
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in its democracy index for 2021 has classed Afghanistan as an authoritarian regime as it has assessed 167 nations in five indexes involving elections, pluralism, civil liberties, political and cultural participation.
Based on the index, all countries of the world have been divided into four main categories including authoritarian regimes. Afghanistan has scored the lowest point in the 2021 index with 0.6 points.
The EIU states that 70 percent of countries recorded a decline in their total democracy score.
In this assessment, Afghanistan s position is better known than all its neighbors except for Pakistan.