United Nations General Assembly A/RES/56/85 Distr.: General 18 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 164 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/56/591)] 56/85. Establishment of the International Criminal Court The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 47/33 of 25 November 1992, 48/31 of 9 December 1993, 49/53 of 9 December 1994, 50/46 of 11 December 1995, 51/207 of 17 December 1996, 52/160 of 15 December 1997, 53/105 of 8 December 1998, 54/105 of 9 December 1999 and 55/155 of 12 December 2000, Noting that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted on 17 July 1998, 1 and taking note of the Final Act of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court done at Rome on 17 July 1998, 2 Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted at the Millennium Assembly, 3 in which heads of State and Government stressed the importance of the International Criminal Court, Noting in particular that the Conference decided to establish a Preparatory Commission for the Court, 4 and that the Commission held two sessions in 2001, from 26 February to 9 March and from 24 September to 5 October, Bearing in mind the mandate of the Preparatory Commission, as set out in resolution F adopted by the Conference, 4 with regard to the preparation of the proposals for practical arrangements for the establishment and coming into operation of the Court, Noting, with regard to the work of the Preparatory Commission and related working groups, the adoption by the Commission on 5 October 2001 of the report on its sixth to eighth sessions, 5 containing the draft texts of the Relationship Agreement between the Court and the United Nations, the Financial Regulations, the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the Court and the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of States Parties, _______________ 1 A/CONF.183/9. A/CONF.183/10. 3 See resolution 55/2. 4 See A/CONF.183/10, annex I. 5 PCNICC/2001/1 and Adds.1–4. 2 01 47827