UN General Assembly
2001

international law will help deny to the perpetrators of these crimes whatever they seek to gain from violence. We consider it essential to renew efforts to promote the rapid entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. A functioning international criminal court for the prosecution of terrorist acts amounting to crimes against humanity — as we consider the attacks on the United States to be — would provide a vital component in the international armoury against terrorism. 9 This fifty-sixth session of the Assembly is the first to follow last year’s Millennium Summit. It will be the ideal occasion to take up the critical issues and strategies for implementing the Millennium Declaration. May I say in this connection that we warmly welcome and find most useful the road map report of the Secretary-General, setting out in some detail how the Summit commitments could be fulfilled. We note that most of the targets set by the Millennium Declaration are not really new. They are the determined results of global conferences of the