United States and the International Criminal Court

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David J. Scheffer, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues and Head of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of a Permanent International Criminal Court, U.S. Department of State:
"We also joined with many other countries during the years of negotiation to oppose the inclusion of crimes of terrorism and drug crimes in the jurisdiction of the court on the grounds that this could undermine more effective national efforts. We had largely prevailed with this point of view only to discover on the last day of the conference that the Bureau's final text suddenly stipulated, in an annexed resolution that would be adopted by the conference, that crimes of terrorism and drug crimes should be included within the jurisdiction of the court, subject only to the question of defining the relevant crimes at a review conference in the future. This last-minute insertion in the text greatly concerned us and we opposed the resolution with a public explanation. We said that while we had an open mind about future consideration of crimes of terrorism and drug crimes, we did not believe that including them will assist in the fight against these two evil crimes. To the contrary, conferring jurisdiction on the court could undermine essential national and transnational efforts, and actually hamper the effective fight against these crimes. The problem, we said, was not prosecution, but rather investigation. These crimes require an ongoing law enforcement effort against criminal organizations and patterns of crime, with police and intelligence resources. The court will not be equipped effectively to investigate and prosecute these types of crimes"

By buggy on Mar 7, 07:50 in Politics & the war.

jorgegdiaz says on Mar 7, 08:04:

wait, Im confused... the US is backing Chavez ? they don´t want him to face charges for harboring terrorism?

... still confused...

wait. I know your answer.
"No, we want to trial Uribe for paraco and narco"
God, I shoud open a shop in Chapinero and become another Indio Amazonico...

Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.

buggy says on Mar 7, 08:08:

The United States never ratified the treaty.

jorgegdiaz says on Mar 7, 08:11:

yeah, you´re right for once.
Shamefull of Jr.

Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.