The effect of the right of veto on the proceedings of the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court plays a major and essential role with the UN Security Council in maintaining international peace and security. On the one hand, it is considered, under the Rome Statute, the judicial body competent to consider the most serious international crimes, such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, and on the other hand. This role is integrated within the framework of the powers that the UN Security Council enjoys granted to it under Chapter Seven of the United Nations Charter. However, this legal status is often affected by political situations, and this inevitably leads to the politicization of the court’s role because it always remains subject to the will of states. The largest group has veto power in the Security Council.Keywords: veto, criminal court, Security Council, major powers.The problem of this study appears in the lack of clarity of the legal relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council, due to the double standards followed by major countries in dealing with international issues. On the one hand, we find them intervening decisively and quickly in cases and situations that fall within the framework of their interests, and on the other hand, their role is ineffective or they stand in a possessive and objecting manner in other internat ional cases that may be of greater importance through the use of the right of veto,