At the time of the Rome Diplomatic Conference, issues had been raised about the risk, unacceptable to many in the military establishment, of submitting to the judgement of others the complex, and sometimes unclear boundaries between justifiable military targets and possible civilian casualties, and the even more problematic appreciation of the issue of tolerable proportionality between military advantage and foreseeable civilian cost. By engaging in military operations in Kosovo under the jurisdictional competence of ICTY, NATO leaders have affirmed their confidence in an international forum that, even in its short history, has demonstrated its competence, its integrity, and its transparency. The willingness to submit to impartial, unbiased scrutiny, is not only the trademark of law-abiding persons and institutions, but it is in my view a prerequisite of their moral entitlement to calling others to account. There is a fin de siecle urgency to this endeavour. International criminal justice has become an inseparable component of the international efforts to make and keep peace and security.
Human security depends on a system which allows for international judicial intervention.
World order without human security is an abstraction. Our ruling generation holds in trust the enforcement of the rules of governance. If we are to embark in wars of values, it is worth fighting for international justice. Authoritative, universal justice.