Sudan cites US as an example of why it won't comply with UN ICC.
ZAKARIA: Will your government mount a defense in the International Criminal Court?This is the company that the US now finds itself in regarding the International Criminal Court.
MOHAMAD: We have no relation with the International Criminal Court. We don't recognize its authority. We are not going to cooperate with it.
ZAKARIA: But of course, you know that other governments that did not recognize the Criminal Court were still forced to extradite their leaders. I'm thinking of Yugoslavia.
MOHAMAD: No. I don't care about them. As far as we are concerned, we are not members. We have been told these days repeatedly that the ICC is an independent body. And so, OK, if it's an independent body, I am not a U.N. organ. We have full right to be part of it or not. And we choose not to be part of it, like the United States.
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yep, 'we' expected something like this to come at some point and voila..there it is..they don't so we won't either..
and there goes your credibility..
Ingrid
yep, 'we' expected something like this to come at some point and voila..there it is..they don't so we won't either..
and there goes your credibility..
Ingrid
Exactly Ingrid. That's the problem with being the world's leader. Others follow. And sometimes, especially after the behaviour of the Bush regime, the people that follow are seldom welcome bedfellows.
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