"We are now in the situation where we have to distinguish two kind of problems: first, the political problems, which they only depend on the political will. And political will can be achieved in one hour, that's not the problem," professor Gerhard Hafner of the Austrian delegation said in an interview with Marina Sikora, of Radio Radicale 2.

"The other problems are the technical ones. We have to cover quite a lot of issues which are of a very technical nature, like surrender and trial and prosecution and all this, quite lot of work has to be done and people dealing with it are working very hard in order to solve all this problems so that at the end we could have at the same time both issues solved," Hafner added.

He also warned that delegates and non-governmental organisations should aim primarily at achieving a strong Court based on the key issues on which an agreement is reachable, rather than concentrating on the most controversial ones.

The issue of agression has already once prevented the world from establishing an International Criminal Court, and it should not happen again, he said. "Austria is interested in having aggression in the (Court) jurisdiction but certainly the main concern is the creation of an effective ICC."