COLOMBIA - DECREE NUMBER 2764 OF 2002 (November 26) promulgating the “Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”

The President of the Republic of Colombia, by virtue of the powers granted to him under Article 189-2 of the Constitution of Colombia, and pursuant to Law 7 of 1944, and

CONSIDERING,

That, on depositing the ratification instrument, the Government of the Republic of Colombia made the following statements:

"1.None of the provisions of the Rome Statute regarding the exercise of jurisdiction by the International Criminal Court preclude the concession of amnesties, or executive or judicial pardons by the Colombian State with regard to political crimes, provided such a concession is in accordance with the Constitution and with the principles and norms of international law as accepted by Colombia.

Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;