Posted on 05/04/2002 6:05:49 AM PDT by kaylar
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is expected to announce on Monday it will disengage from the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court, sources in Congress and nongovernmental organizations said on Friday.
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Clinton and his successor, President Bush (news - web sites), fearing the treaty could be used against U.S. military personnel, decided not to submit it to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
Lynne Weil, press secretary for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the majority Democratic staff on the committee had come to the conclusion that the administration would announce on Monday a decision to "unsign" the treaty.
Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman will speak at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday morning on international justice.
"Grossman's going to speak about ... the importance the U.S. attaches to international standards of justice and the best way to go about achieving them," said a senior State Department official, who asked not to be named.
"Everyone knows our problems with the ICC (International Criminal Court). We don't think it's the best way. We don't think it's an effective mechanism for bringing international justice and it needlessly complicates lots of issues involved with maintaining international security," he added.
BIDEN, DODD TO BE BRIEFED
Another clue to the administration's intentions is that the State Department has invited Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Christopher Dodd to a briefing on the subject, the nongovernmental organizations said.
Biden is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Dodd, a committee member, is one of the senators most sympathetic to U.S. cooperation with the ICC.
"There is a real possibility that they may announce they are unsigning the Rome Treaty on Monday," said Liz Vladeck of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
"In that speech Grossman may indeed say something like the U.S. does not consider itself bound by President Clinton (news - web sites)'s signature on the Rome treaty," added another NGO source who has followed the ICC debate closely.
The ICC became a reality on April 11 when the number of countries ratifying the Rome Treaty crossed the 60 mark. It is expected to go into operation next year in The Hague (news - web sites), Netherlands.
Pierre-Richard Prosper, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes, told reporters at the time that no decision had yet been made on the U.S. attitude toward the court.
He said Washington would "remain divorced from the structure" but did not rule out all cooperation with the court. He left open the possibility of a U.S. veto if U.N. Security Council members try to refer a case to the court.
One NGO source, who asked not to be named, said: "What I understand is that they will be saying that they don't consider the U.S. bound by Clinton's signature."
This move might allow the administration to cooperate with the court when it thought it was in U.S. interests, the source added.
Hey, one of them gets it!
Amen!
Blind faith on my part?
No. War on Terror. Prisoners at Gitmo. Other examples.
Another clue to the administration's intentions is that the State Department has invited Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Christopher Dodd to a briefing on the subject, the nongovernmental organizations said.
added another NGO source who has followed the ICC debate closely.
One NGO source, who asked not to be named, said
One NGO source who asked not to be named? I don't see a single one of these gutless Friends of Tyranny named except for:
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
which is enough to send chills up my spine.
Instead, Bush and company continue to insist that Yugoslavia and Republika Srpska "cooperate" more and more with the "court",and that more Serbs surrender to its jurisdiction. They also insist that the "court" have the "right" of complete access to Yugoslavia's classified files. This is nothing but HYPOCRICY, as well as INJUSTICE!!!!
The "father" of both the ICTY and the ICC is Cherif Bassiouni, the Egyptian-"American" law professor who believes that sharia law is "perfect", and who also beleives in "enlightened islamic fundamentalism." So the ICTY and the ICC are not only globalist scams, but also muslim fifth-columnist plots!!!!
muslim extremists are the viruses that infect the body of globalism! They are using globalism as a Trojan horse to help realize their 1400-year-old dream: muslim world conquest!!!!
I did a google search on Cherif Bassiouni icc to see what I'd find : Any freeper who doubts HS's description should check it out. It';s bone chilling.
And a search under Cherif Bassiouni shariya pulled up this little multipage gem, mainly on Islamic law. Mr . Bassiouni does indeed seem to be a "fan" of Islamic law:
Very scary stuff.
And as a Sovereign Nation Americans and America are under no obligation to any treaty of this sort. Isn't it amazing that so many people elected Bill Clinton to dissolve the American Constitution?
Write our President and remind him of his duty to Preserve and Protect the United States Constitution something Bill Clinton rarely if ever, did.
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