Letter: U.S. Withdrawal from ICC

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[jgrubbs]

Letter: U.S. Withdrawal from ICC

NewsMax.com
Monday May 6, 2002

UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
WASHINGTON

Dear Mr. Secretary-General:

This is to inform you, in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted on July 17, 1998, that the United States does not intend to become a party to the treaty. Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000. The United States requests that its intention not to become a party, as expressed in this letter, be reflected in the depositary's status lists relating to this treaty.

Sincerely,

John R. Bolton

The Honorable
Kofi Annan
Secretary General of the United Nations
The United Nations
New York

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ORIGINAL LETTER

[Willie Green]

this is why we elected george w. bush.

When's he gonna terminate the American Heritage Rivers Initiative?

[Bahbah]

It just makes me want to stand up and cheer.

[backhoe]

Good first step... next--

American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.

[Colt .45]

HURRAH!

[MaeWest]

bttt!

[Brownie74]

Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000.

An anti UN bump.

[medved]

How about shutting down the kangaroo tribunal in the Hague and releasing Slobodon Milosevic? I mean, I've never yet read anything which described hypocrisy as a good thing...

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000.

IOW, we just "unsigned" the treaty.

Or put another way, "the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature conducted at the behest of a lying, perjurous, adulterous, traitorous, masagonistic criminal that was occupying the White House at the time."

[ravingnutter]

Well...from all appearances it is dead...

"As a member of the Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee Hinchey submitted written questions to Veneman after an April budget hearing. He noted that the administration's budget plan zeroed out NRCS's participation in the Heritage Rivers Initiative and asked Veneman what would happen to the two river navigators. Veneman responded that the contract for the navigator position on the Upper Susquehanna/Lackawanna project would not be extended and that the NRCS employee currently assigned as river navigator for the Hudson would now take responsibility for both rivers and would be limited to working on USDA-authorized programs. "The response from Secretary Veneman and the language in USDA's budget request made it clear that the Bush Administration sought to eliminate the American Heritage Rivers Initiative,"

Source

See also:

Heritage Rivers Initiative Advisory Committee, American; termination: EO 13225 (Under "H", a .pdf file)

From the WH website:

Sec. 3. The following Executive Orders, or sections thereof, which established committees that have terminated and whose work is completed, are revoked:

(a) Sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order 13134 pertaining to the establishment and administration of the Advisory Committee on Biobased Products and Bioenergy, superseded by the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee established pursuant to section 306 of the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 (Title III of Public Law 106-224);

(b) Executive Order 13080, establishing the American Heritage Rivers Initiative Advisory Committee;

WH Press Release

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"How about shutting down the kangaroo tribunal in the Hague and releasing Slobodon Milosevic?"

He was not re-elected to office by his own people.
They then sent him there.
If they want him back it's up to them to do that.
The US has more important things to do than worry about an old time Commie.
His own people can't stand him,
why should we waste our time trying to get him back to a country that does not want him?

After graduating in 1964, Milosevic joined the Communist Party,
the customary avenue to power in communist Yugoslavia.
He moved steadily up the career ladder as a business administrator, eventually assuming the leadership of the state-owned gas company before being appointed director of Beobanka, one of the major state-run banks.
He also married Mirjana Markovic, a professor of Marxist sociology at the University of Belgrade, who he had met while they were both at high school.
A fanatical communist, Markovic played a major role in her husband's rise to power, always insisting that "Slobo's picture will one day hang like Tito's."
They have two children, daughter Mira and son Marko, both of whom have made fortunes on the back of their father's political career.

[Redbob]

This kind of thing keeps up, pretty soon we'll start seeing the kind of "leaks" that plagued the Reagan administration, with one faction trying to one-up the other through leaks to the Wash Post.

[MistyCA]

Thank you for this ping Tonk! :)

[MistyCA]

AMEN to that!!!!

[MissAmericanPie]

Where did this letter come from? It looks completely phoney, who is John Bolton, why is his title not with his signature? By what authority does John Bolton inform the U.N. of anything?

This is bogus.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Where did this letter come from? It looks completely phoney, who is John Bolton, why is his title not with his signature? "

From link in Post 5

John R. Bolton
Under Secretary, Arms Control and International Security
Term of Appointment: 05/11/2001 to present

[Rodney King]

I find it odd as well. One could make much nicer stationary simply using Microsoft Word.

[summer]

Interesting. Thanks for the flag.

[MissAmericanPie]

This is suppose to be reassuring? Something very formal signed by the President, or the Senate would be reassuring, but some little note on bathroom paper from a flunky in the Justice Department just doesn't impress, it leaves far to much wiggle room to be backed away from by both the President and the Senate.

[Tauzero]

BUMP!