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This book considers the relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) under three major aspects: triggering the jurisdiction of the Court when the Security Council adopts a resolution requesting that under Article 13 (b) of the Rome Statute; delaying the Court´s action by UNSC according to Article 16 of the Rome Statute; and the cooperation between the two institutions in cases where the Council refers to the Court situations, and also with regard to state-party referrals, and situations initiated proprio motu by the Prosecutor.
The book analyzes this relationship according to Resolution 1593 (2005) by which the Security Council assigned the situation in Darfur to the Court. It highlights the main flaws of this Resolution, and discusses the African Union´s position towards the Court.

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Ammar Mahmoud is a Sudanese diplomat, currently working at the Department of International Law and Treaties of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sudan. He previously served in Sudan´s diplomatic missions in Jeddah, Abuja and Nairobi.
Mr. Mahmoud graduated from the University of Khartoum in 2002 with a B.Sc. in Political Science and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations in 2007. Additionally, he obtained a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) in International Crime and Justice from the University of Turin/ UNICRI in Italy in 2012.

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