Posted on 06/20/2002 11:43:48 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Bush administration appears to be alone in believing that U.N. peacekeepers deserve special recognition at the International Criminal Court (ICC) because they, as their title suggests, endeavor to keep peace. Peacekeepers engage in humanitarian missions that, almost by definition, don't further the national interests of the government dispatching them in any significant way. Since the motivations for sending peacekeepers are by and large altruistic, the White House has quite reasonably asked the U.N. Security Council to exempt them from prosecution at the ICC, which is slated to open July 1.
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