Trump urges ICC members to leave court at UN address
US President Donald Trump called on countries belonging to the International Criminal Court to withdraw, describing it as “out of control” during his address to the UN General Assembly. The United States is not an ICC member and has opposed the court’s action involving Israel’s prime minister.
US President Donald Trump called on all countries belonging to the International Criminal Court to leave the institution during an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Channels Television reports. Trump described the ICC as “out of control” and urged its members to “officially resign”. He said the United States opposed the court and would not allow US service members or others to be investigated by what he called an anti-American tribunal without jurisdiction over the country.
The report says the United States has never ratified the Rome Statute establishing the court. Israel, Russia and China are also identified as non-members. The ICC prosecutes individuals for the world’s worst crimes.
Washington has imposed sanctions on ICC officials over the court’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close US ally. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has separately vowed to dismantle the court “brick by brick”, according to the report.
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