US Position on the ICC

US Position on the ICC

International Criminal Court (ICC)

This independent, permanent, international criminal court is engaged in the prosecution of individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The ICC deals only with matters such as the country where the crime was committed, or the country where the perpetrator is derived, is a member of the Court. Condition is that national states, which in principle are competent, unwilling or unable to investigate the matter or treat. The crimes have been committed after July 1, 2002. The ICC was founded in 2002 after 60 countries the Statute for an International Criminal Court had ratified. Meanwhile over a hundred countries signed the Statute. The ICC is not part of the United Nations court here it works together with it. The Court has eighteen judges of different nationalities working, by the Assembly of States Parties to the Statute of the International Criminal Court are elected. Together the global legal promote also means that partners are critical to each other and therefore it is unacceptable that the U.S. does not recognize the International Criminal Court.

The United States and the International Criminal Court

Until recently, the United States strongly opposes the ICC, suggesting that they feared it would sue the citizens of the United States for political reasons. Although the text of the Rome Statute was being developed, the U.S. demanded that the work of the International Criminal Court under the supervision of the UN Security Council (which hold a permanent veto), which makes decisions on matters that may arise whether or not the court.

However, at the Rome Conference decided to establish the post of independent director, and also limits the power of control of the Security Council to refer a situation to the Court within twelve months, and for the sake of ...