U.S. Urges Governments to Support Immunity Proposal (VIA)

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has sent a letter to Foreign Ministers in about 60 countries, urging support for the U.S. proposal for the proposed International Criminal Court (ICC). The U.S. seeks a provision in the UN/ICC relationship agreement and a Rule to Article 98 of the Rome Statute to meet the U.S. “fundamental objective to prevent, unless certain conditions are met, the surrender to or acceptance by the ICC for trial of nationals of non-party States who are acting under governmental direction and whose actions are acknowledged as such by the non-party State”…[more]