ICC-ASP-20110928-PR727

By depositing its instrument of ratification on 26 September 2011, during the annual Treaty Event at UN Headquarters, San Marino became the first State to ratify the amendment to article 8 of the Rome Statute which had been agreed to at the 2010 Review Conference in Kampala. The amendment extends the jurisdiction of the Court to the war crimes of employing certain weapons and substances in armed conflicts not of an international character.