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"en.20020925.6.3-146"2
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"Mr President, we have to face the facts regarding the USA, the ICC and the European Union. The facts are: the total rejection by Washington of the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court; the postponement by the United Nations Security Council, under United States pressure, of any prosecution by the ICC, first until 1 July 2003, and then until 2004 or maybe 2005; and the bilateral agreement on immunity pursued by the United States with some foreign governments, among them two European governments namely Great Britain and Italy, seeking for a law to protect American forces abroad – a law that would authorise military action anywhere, even in the Netherlands, to liberate any American personnel detained by the ICC.
Do we need any other proof of the intention of the Bush administration to torpedo the ICC?
Nowadays there are American troops in 140 countries throughout the world, in more than half of these countries with permanent bases. So we are confronted with a superpower which does not allow any other law but its own, on its military forces or its civilian personnel.
As Commissioner Patten has just stated, grumbling against the United States is no substitute for a European foreign policy. I entirely agree with him. I hope he will agree with me that lamenting, whining and giving in through endless useless transatlantic dialogue on an issue of such gravity is no foreign policy either."@en1
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