"It will focus on those most responsible for crimes against humanity committed in the territory of Libya since 15 February 2011," he told the security council.
The court has power to prosecute persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violating the laws or customs of war, committing genocide, and crimes against humanity committed in the territory of the former SFR Yugoslavia since January 1 , 1991
The Palestinians have asked it to exercise jurisdiction over any crimes committed in the occupied territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza from 13 June 2014.
In practice, this means that a Palestinian and an Israeli settler who stand accused of the same crime, committed in the exact same territory, experience fundamentally separate criminal justice systems, from arrest through interrogation, trial and punishment.
The prosecutor of the international criminal court in The Hague has launched an initial examination to consider whether war crimes have been committed in the occupied Palestinian territories and whether any crimes identified meet the criteria for a fully fledged investigation.
The council's parliamentary assembly called for international and Albanian investigations into crimes committed in the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict, including "numerous indications" that organs were removed from the bodies of prisoners held by the KLA on Albanian territory.
Palestinian leaders have repeatedly threatened to refer crimes it says Israel committed in its territory to prosecute Israel in the international tribunal for alleged war crimes, but have yet to do so.
He accused the government of Lebanon of "not lifting a finger" to stop the "war crimes" committed in its territory by Hezbollah guerrillas.
The guilty verdict of the foreign court, about a crime committed in its territory, must be accepted as correct.
And where does this leave the international judicial response that was so keenly welcomed last February when the UN security council referred the Libya situation to the ICC? Libyan authorities have primary jurisdiction over crimes committed in their territory, but have been legally bound to transfer Saif to The Hague since the pre-trial chamber of the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him.
North Korea, however, is not a member of the court, and the ICC would only have jurisdiction over crimes committed in its territory with a Security Council referral — a move that China and Russia would be expected to block.
