His country, the victim of foreign occupation, attached great importance to the provisions of the Rome Statute and, in particular, to the fact that the jurisdiction of the Court extended to war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as forcible population transfers, the transfer by the occupying Power of its own population into the occupied territory, enforced disappearances of persons and the subsequent refusal to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons.
Chypre, qui est victime d'une occupation étrangère, attache une grande importance aux dispositions du Statut de Rome et en particulier au fait que la compétence de la Cour s'étend aux crimes de guerre et aux crimes contre l'humanité, par exemple la déportation forcée, le transfert de population de la puissance occupante sur un territoire occupé, les disparitions et le refus de donner des informations sur le sort des disparus.