text: w/ With regard to the numbering of the two draft articles, the Special Rapporteur pointed out in his report that it would be for the Commission to decide on their firs1 position among the crimes against the peace and the crimes against humanity. - 13 -draft Code, on the obligation to try or extradite. a/ He also responded to paragraph 2 of Qerreral Assembly resolutions 43/184 and 44133 of 9 December 1966 and 4 Deaember 1969 respeatively, aoncerning the draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Seourity of Mankind. 2W Part Three, to which the Special Rapporteur asorihed a preliminary aharaoter, was in the nature of a guestionnaire-aroport, the purpose of which was to offer the Commission some choices between different solutions and to eliait responses. The ohoioes related mainly to the followih:g points aonaerning the possible establishment of an international criminal aourt8 aompetenae of the Court, prooedure for appointing judges, submission of oases to the Court, funotions of the proseauting attorney, pre-trial examination, authority of mm by a aourt of a State, authority ofm by the Court, withdrawal of complaints, penalties and financial provisions. For each of the points thus listed, the Special Rapportour submitted various possible versions of provisions which might form part of the statute of an international criminal court. 30. The Commission considered the Special Rapporteur’s eighth report from its 2150th to its 2159th meetings, After hearing the Special Rapporteur’s presentation, the Commission considered draft articles 15, 16, 17, X and Y in their new versions. In view of the revised versions of these draft articles 2.21 Paragraph 3 of draft article 4 states that the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 do not prejudge the establishment and the jurisdiction of an international criminal court. Moreover, paragraph (5) of the commentary
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