Thank your very much.
As regards replacing a culture of impunity with a culture of accountability, that's obviously a long-term undertaking. The Court will have to prove itself. It recognizes that it is primarily responsible for establishing its credibility.
However, the first signs are quite encouraging. When I was appointed to the Court, I thought the only way to develop this culture of accountability would be through our judgments and that, consequently, that would take a number of years. Now we realize that the Court's very existence is noted in many situations where there are and could be conflicts or crimes. So we see that the Court's existence has begun to create a culture which, for the moment, should at least be a culture of deterrence and which should one day lead to the creation of a culture of accountability.
I should have said at the end of my presentation that, as regards the bilateral agreements, I am in a somewhat delicate position on certain questions since I'm not only the president of the Court, but also a judge in its Appeal Division. One of the questions of interpretation, perhaps concerning the existence of those agreements and the obligations of States that have entered into them, if they are States Parties, could come before the Appeal Division, and I would therefore be compelled not to answer that question.
Thank you.