"The International Criminal Court is troubling to the United States"
Why? Because the US (nor any other nation) will have control of it. Bush is refusing to cooperate with the International Crime Court, unless his nation and troops are made immune under its laws. It appears that Bush doesn't quite get the point - if the countries that are involved in setting up the ICC and their allies are made immune to its rules, then why have it at all?
At the same time, Bush ensured the state of the Balkans would once again erupt into conflict by vetoing a six-month extension of the current UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
Even worse, US Senators Jesse Helms and John Warner, with Representatives Tom Delay and Floyd Spence, presented legislation to deny American military aid to any nations that did support the ICC (Except, of course, for "some US allies")
What's Canada's position on the ICC?
"We stand poised at the edge of invention: a rare occassion to build a new institution to serve a global need. An International Criminal Court is within our grasp"
Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign AffairsWebsite: Canada & the International Criminal Court.
Posted by Darren James Harkness on Wednesday, July 3, 2002 09:19 AMTrackbacks...
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