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States Parties to the Rome Statute as of 11 October 2011 302
Total number of ICC States Parties: 119
Total number of ASP Bureau members: 21 303
President of the ASP: Ambassador Christian Wenaweser (Liechtenstein) 304
Vice-Presidents: Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico) and Ambassador Simona-Mirela Miculescu
(Romania)
Regional Group Number of % of Number of % of
States Parties States Parties Bureau members Bureau members
African States 33 27.7% 5 23.8%
Asia-Pacific States 17 14.3% 3 14.3%
Eastern European States 18 15.1% 4 19.05%
Group of Latin American and
Caribbean States (GRULAC) 26 21.9% 4 19.05%
Western European and
Others Group (WEOG) 25 21% 5 23.8%
Totals 119 21
302 Information as adapted from the ICC’s website. See .
303 The Bureau of the ASP, which assists the ASP in the discharge of its functions, is composed of a President, two Vice Presidents and
18 members, elected by the ASP for three-year terms. The only members of the Bureau who are elected in their personal capacity
are the President and two Vice-Presidents. The other 18 members of the Bureau are States and are represented by country
delegates. The other members of the Bureau are: Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Gabon, Georgia, Japan, Jordan, Kenya,
Nigeria, Norway, Samoa, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. See . The current Bureau assumed its functions at the beginning
of the seventh session of the ASP on 14 November 2008.
304 On 26 July 2011, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties recommended that Tiina Intelmann (Estonia) be elected as the new
President of the ASP at the beginning of the tenth session in New York from 12-21 December 2011.
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