Dmli – The National Parliament of Timor approved and ratified today to adhesion from Timor to the International Criminal Court (TPI), with 70 votes to favor and barely an abstention, of the representative Leandro Isaac.

The projecto of resolution, number 15/2002, was approved during the session plenaria from the afternoon (local hour) of today, after a debate of around a hour in that the representatives analyzed several aspects of the Statute of Rome.

Specially in analysis were eventual contradictions between the Statute and the Constitution of East Timor, namely where it touches onquestions of extradition and to the application of penalty.

It is the case from the forecast, in the Statute, from the perpetual prison, that is not permitted in the law-base native of timor and still the case from the extradition that Timor does not foresee.

The proposal approved today included a statement interpretativa in that Timor "declares its intention of exercise the power of jurisdiction about persons found in national territory indiciadas by the crimes predicted" in the Statute, "with observance of the its constitutional rules and too internal penal legislation".

The statement refers even if "the requests of cooperation and the documents comprovativos that instruct them" prepared by the TPI "they should be written in Portuguese language or accompanied of a translation in this language".

In statements to the agency Lusa after the vote, the president of the National Parliament, Francisco Guterres (Lu-Olo) considered the ratification of the TPI important for Timor, specially in the chart from theirs own history.

"We are a small country, that aim of violations went and upon we will approve this resolution do not we leave of have in count to ours own history", affirmed.

"They will not want see repeated noutros small countries the mesmas forms of oppression and tyranny of that we own went aim. For that end, the TPI he is specially helpful", he highlighted.