U.S. Signs ICC On Final Day for Signing

On December 31, 2000, President William J. Clinton authorized the signing of the Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court (ICC), joining more than 130 countries, thereby injecting substantial support to the establishment of the ICC, notwithstanding the objections of the U.S. upper-echelon military and national security and conservative groups in Congress. President Clinton’s statement explaining the authorization of the signing explained the U.S. Government’s intent “to reaffirm our strong support for international accountability and for bringing to justice perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. We do so as well because we wish to remain engaged in making the I.C.C. an instrument of impartial and effective justice in the years to come” …[more]