Question

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted in the year:

• A. 1998
• B. 1999
• C. 2000
• D. 2001

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The Correct Option is (A): 1998.

Answer 2

This question asks for the year the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, was adopted.

1. 1998: The Rome Statute was adopted on 17 July 1998 at a diplomatic conference held in Rome, this is the correct year of adoption.
2. 1999: The Statute was not adopted in 1999, this year does not correspond to the Rome Conference or the treaty's entry into force.
3. 2000: This year also does not mark the adoption of the Statute, it falls in the period when states were signing and beginning ratification, not adoption.
4. 2001: This is also incorrect, the Statute needed sixty ratifications before it could take effect, a process that was still ongoing at this point, and the Statute itself was already adopted years earlier in 1998.

The Rome Statute was adopted in 1998, though it only entered into force on 1 July 2002, once the required number of states had ratified it, so the adoption year and the entry-into-force year are two different dates.

So the correct answer is 1998.