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The reason why the immunities of state parties to the International Criminal Court cannot prevent proceedings under Part 2 is that state parties to the International Criminal Court are understood to have agreed to waive their immunities. However, they have waived their immunities only in respect of the International Criminal Court. As a country that became a party to the ICC statute, we have accepted that our Prime Minister could be arrested in a foreign country and delivered to The Hague, but we have not accepted that our Prime Minister could be arrested and put on trial before the domestic courts of other countries.