US Slaps New Sanctions on International Criminal Court
The State Department announced further sanctions against the ICC over its efforts to charge American service members.
The United States is imposing additional sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to the court's attempts to prosecute American service members, according to a U.S. official and an internal memo.
Diplomatic posts were alerted to impending "further ICC action" on Thursday. The memo highlighted long-standing U.S. objections, noting that the United States is not a signatory to the court's founding treaty. The State Department stated that the ICC "seeks to become the unaccountable global arbiter – positioning itself above and beyond the nation state as a supranational judicial arm of a globalist bureaucracy empowered to persecute American servicemen and officials at will without authority and as an affront to our sovereignty."
"It must be clear, once and for all, that the ICC can pose no threat to those who did not accept its authority," the memo added. "Building on the U.S. campaign to assemble a coalition of countries willing to reject the Court’s assault on State sovereignty, the United States has no choice but to impose further sanctions."
These sanctions were announced following a speech by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Athens, Greece, where he criticized efforts to "abolish the sovereignty of nations" and advocated for the "unapologetic pursuit of national power."
