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It came in a 74-page report delivered in New York to the annual assembly of states parties that participate in the jurisdiction of the court.

Last week Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, declared that he will encourage African leaders to quit the court, describing it as a "tool to target" the continent, but numerous African countries pledged support to the ICC at an assembly of states parties in New York.

Sidiki Kaba, president of the assembly of states to the ICC, expressed "deep concern about the negative consequences for the court" if South Africa refused to comply with its obligations to carry out the arrest.

The one organisation that comes close to being regarded as a credible authority in this respect is the United Nations, which in substance is an assembly of states, and whose authority still from time to time comes under the challenge of some its members, big or small.

All member countries are represented in the Assembly of States Parties, which oversees the activities of the ICC.

Nonetheless, after a decade of negotiations, and against all expectations, the Assembly of States Parties to the I.C.C. has produced a draft.

"I urge them to work together with other states in the fight against impunity, which often causes massive violations of human rights," Sidiki Kaba, president of the assembly of state parties to the ICC founding treaty, said in a statement.

The Open Society Justice Initiative strongly urges the court and the state parties to act upon the lessons learnt following the Lubanga judgment by adopting the guidelines on intermediaries at the assembly of state parties this November.

Speaking after the court's annual assembly of state parties in The Hague in November, she acknowledged: "It's a regression for the continent that there are some African states that are deciding to withdraw from the ICC".

In 2010, at a conference in Kampala, Uganda, an assembly of state parties that have signed up to the ICC agreed "to activate the court's jurisdiction over the crime of aggression as early as possible".

Senegal has declined to take an official position, but its justice minister, Sidiki Kaba, who also happens to be the current president of the assembly of state parties to the Rome statute of the international criminal court, has urged South Africa and Burundi to reconsider their positions.