Kinshasa, June 8th, 2025 (CPA) – Preventive and repressive international justice was recommended by the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at a conference on the revision of the Rome Statute in Berlin, Germany, according to the Court’s X account on Saturday.
‘Dieudonné Kamuleta, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the DRC, addressed an assembly of some fifty delegates from all over the world, recommending both preventive and repressive international criminal justice, during the international conference on the revision of the Rome Statute’, it read.
‘The Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the DRC, who is also President of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (CSM), also called for an urgent reform of articles 8 bis, 15 bis and 15 ter of the Rome Statute, considered to be the ‘legal foundation of the International Criminal Court (ICC)’. Dieudonné Kamuleta also argued that the international conference in Berlin, organized under the aegis of the Federal Republic of Germany’s Ministry in charge of Foreign Affairs, should make a difference in terms of clarity and vision. According to the same source, Dieudonné Kamuleta was on the same panel as a number of leading figures in international law, including Tomoko Akane, current President of the ICC, the ambassador of Sierra Leone, Professor Claus Kress of the University of Cologne and Professor Charles Jallot of the University of Miami, and affirmed the relevance of the African perspective in overhauling the international criminal justice system. On the fringes of the proceedings in Berlin, the President of the Constitutional Court met Christoph Retzlaff, the German Foreign Ministry’s High Representative for Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel, who praised the quality of the DRC’s contribution and its growing involvement in major international discussions.