In The Hague, the United States attended a meeting of the International Criminal Court's management board for the first time Wednesday in a sign it has stopped shunning the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal. The U.S. has not ratified the court's founding treaty, the Rome Statue, partly because of fears the court could become a forum for politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. troops. U.S. war crimes ambassador Stephen Rapp is expected to make a statement to the assembly on Thursday.
November 19, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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In The Hague, Netherlands, the United States attended a meeting of the International Criminal Court’s management board for the first time Wednesday in a sign it has stopped shunning the world’s only permanent war crimes tribunal.
The United States has not ratified the court’s founding treaty, the Rome Statue, partly because of fears the court could become a forum for politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. troops.
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