AKIPRESS.COM - The Parliament of Mongolia on January 30 backed a bill ratifying the 2010 Amendment to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Mongolia signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2000 and ratified in 2002, according to Montsame. 

In 2010, the signatory nations agreed to make amendments to the Statute adding the definition of the crime of agression and the conditions for the exercise of jurisdiction over this crime.

The amendments define the crime of aggression in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314. Acts of aggression are: invading another state; bombing another state; blockading the ports or coastlines of another state; attacking the land, sea, or air forces, or marine or sea fleets of another state; violating a status of forces agreement; using armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries against another state; allowing territory to be used by another state to perpetrate an act of aggression against a third state.