Washington (US), 13 July (LaPresse) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a new attack on the International Criminal Court (ICC), announcing a diplomatic initiative by the Trump administration aimed at dismantling the Court. “The United States is launching a diplomatic campaign based on a simple message: sovereign states take precedence over globalism,” Rubio stated in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal and in a video message shared on social media. “Using every tool at our government’s disposal and working with every ally with whom we can join forces, we will dismantle the ICC: brick by brick, if necessary,” the US Secretary of State asserted. In his video message, Rubio accused the ICC of being “a global court made up of unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is virtually unlimited”. In the editorial, the Secretary of State also accused the body of being “supported and run by a powerful network of left-wing non-governmental organisations, arrogant globalists and hostile Third World governments, united by their hostility towards the United States”. The United States has never acceded to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC in 2002.
US: Rubio against the ICC – we will dismantle it brick by brick
Washington (US), 13 July (LaPresse) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a new attack on the International Criminal Court (ICC), announcing a diplomatic initiative by the Trump administration aimed at dismantling the Court. “The United States is launching a diplomatic campaign based on a simple message: sovereign states take precedence over globalism,” Rubio stated in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal and in a video message shared on social media. “Using every tool at our government’s disposal and working with every ally with whom we can join forces, we will dismantle the ICC: brick by brick, if necessary,” the US Secretary of State asserted. In his video message, Rubio accused the ICC of being “a global court made up of unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is virtually unlimited”. In the editorial, the Secretary of State also accused the body of being “supported and run by a powerful network of left-wing non-governmental organisations, arrogant globalists and hostile Third World governments, united by their hostility towards the United States”. The United States has never acceded to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC in 2002.
