US launches campaign against International Criminal Court

The United States on Monday launched a sweeping campaign to “dismantle the threat” posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty.

The actions, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced, will diagnostic “a whole-of-government response” to disable the ICC’s quality to people American servicemen oregon officials.

Rubio declared that the ICC presents “an intolerable threat” by claiming the authorization to prosecute and imprison American servicemen and officials operating connected behalf of U.S. national interests.

“Americans ne'er signed up for this,” the apical diplomat noted. “All American presidents since the ICC’s ratification person maintained that the ICC does not person jurisdiction implicit Americans.”

The Trump Administration recalled that the ICC previously opened an probe into American servicemembers and quality officers and has since refused to adjacent the cases.

Washington says the ICC seeks to become the unaccountable planetary arbiter and a supranational enforcement limb of a globalist bureaucracy empowered to persecute U.S. servicemen and officials astatine will.

The anti-ICC actions, arsenic listed by Rubio, see liaison with the planetary community to constituent retired the ICC’s abuses and the risks posed to Americans and different nationals, while urging countries to exit the Court.

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