What happened in Rome is something the U. S. had extreme difficulty with. It was international legislation conducted by multilateral parliamentary diplomacy. This was very much like the passage of a complex bill through Congress. You don't have everybody sit down in the well of the Senate and do it together. It is broken down into small groups and committees.
Different groups negotiate, and it all comes together in the end.
Yet, the U. S. complained that the procedure, which I think could not have been otherwise, was unfair. Turning to the political nature of the negotiations in Rome, the preparatory process beginning with the ad hoc committee, had seen the integration and development of a group of countries into a caucus to push a particular vision of the Court. I was pleased to see on the guest list for this program today representatives of embassies of some nations that were among leaders of that group. The group began with countries in Northern Europe, Latin America, a few in Asia, and a few in Africa. By the time we got to the Rome meeting there were some sixty like-minded countries sharing a vision for the Court.