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National implementation of international humanitarian law Biannual update on national legislation and case law January–June 2003*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

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The Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia was adopted by the National Assembly on 18 April 2003 and published on 2 May 2003. It entered into force on 1 August 2003. The Code establishes a comprehensive system for the repression of war crimes, in accordance with the country's international obligations under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols of 1977. It does not distinguish between acts committed in internal and in international armed conflicts and contains general principles of repression such as universal jurisdiction, command responsibility, no impunity on grounds of superior order, no statutory limitation. The Code also contains, in a Special Part, a separate chapter on the repression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (Part 13, Chapter 34).

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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 85 , Issue 851: Les victimes après la guerre: action humanitaire, réparation et justice/Victims after the war: humanitarian action, reparation and justice , September 2003 , pp. 654 - 662
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2003

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References

1 Registration No.: HO-528-N, published in Official Bulletin of Republic of Armenia No. 25 (260) on 2 May 2003.

2 Bundesgesetz über die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof, Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik Österreich, 13 August 2002, No. 135, pp. 1423–1436.

3 Loi modifiant la loi du 16 juin 1993 relative à la répression des violations graves du droit humanitaire et l'article 144 ter du Code judiciaire, published in Moniteur Belge on 7 May 2003, Ed. 2, No. 167, pp. 24846–24853.

4 Loi relative aux violations graves du droit international humanitaire, published in Moniteur Belge on 7 August 2003, Ed. 2, No. 286, pp. 40506–40515.

5 Law No. VIII-1968, published in Valstybes zinios, 2000, No. 89–2741.

6 Law No. IX-785, published in Valstybes zinios, 2002, No. 37–1341.

7 International Criminal Court Act to provide for assistance to the lnternational Criminal Court, Act XXIV of 2002, Chapter 453.

8 Act No. 3 of 2003, published in the Government Gazette on 17 May 2003.

9 Criminal Code, adopted on 18 April 2002 under No. 985-XV, promulgated by the Decree of the President No. 873-III on 6 September 2002, published in Monitorul Oficial al Republicii Moldova, No. 128–129, 13 September 2002, Article 1012 (the Presidential Decree is published under Article 1013).

10 Act on Cooperation with the International Criminal Court, The Swedish Code of Statutes, SFS 2002:329.