The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has revoked the four sanctions imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump on the taxation of the International Criminal Court (CPI), while a more collaborative corner with this tribunal differs from that of its allies .
In a statement issued by the United States of America, the Secretary of State for Trump, Mike Pompeo, denounced the year passed by the CPI as an “unauthorized tribunal” and imposed all such financial sanctions as a visa ban on its principal fiscal, Fatou Bensouda.
Pompeo Tomo said these midwives despised that Bensouda was initiating an investigation into alleged crime crimes committed by military personnel in Afghanistan.
The tribunal convened in La Haya to irritate the United States to open an investigation into alleged crimes committed in the Palestinian territories by Israel, an allied state that does not recognize the CPI’s authority.
Pompeo’s successor, Antony Blinken, said the United States was “in total disarray” with the steps taken by the CPI in relation to Afghanistan and Israel, but considered that Trump’s government funds were “inappropriate and ineffective.”
“We believe, without embarrassment, that our preoccupations with these cases are more aborted through the participation of all interested parties in the CPI process in the imposition of sanctions,” Blinken said in a statement.
Democrat Biden revoked Trump’s Republican decree on impending sanctions in September 2020, which also lifted punitive measures against the head of the Division of Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation of the Fiscal Office, Phakiso Mochochoko.
In addition, the State Department is pushing for varying restrictions on visa decisions in 2019 against CPI staff members.
The Gambian tax evasion will take place in June, replacing the British barrister Karim Khan.
– “A new phase” –
Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Director of the State Association of the CPI, expressed her hope that the decision “signaled the start of a new phase of our common compromise against impunity” of war criminals.
France, which, like other European allies, was horrified by Trump’s media, celebrated the change of heart and agreed to support the CPI.
“It is an excellent notice for all those who are compromising with the gap against impunity, with multilateralism and with an international order based on the State of Justice”, said French Chancellor Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Blinken positively opposed the reforms that are in line with the CPI, as well as an object of scrutiny over some internal support, including the salaries of the juices.
The United States, which has ratified the 1998 Rome Statute establishing the CPI, supports international judicial initiatives specific to the responsibility of women committing crimes of war or crimes of human readiness, including cases in the Balkans.
“Our support for the State of Justice, access to justice and the possibility of those responsible for massive misconduct are among the important interests of national security for the United States,” Blinken said.
– “Restoration of the ideals of stadiums” –
The head of state diplomacy announced the end of the CPI’s personal sanctions, saying in advance that the governor should respond to a request against Trump’s decree presented by the Open Society Justice Initiative, a group that promotes human rights and democracy.
James Goldston, executive director of the initiative, praised Biden’s decision as a “restoration of the ideals of stadiums”.
“United States has a long history of using sanctions to prosecute human rights violators, but it has never been used in this case to sue an Independent Tribunal that seeks redress for antitrust offenses,” he said.
The human rights watchdog’s defense NGO Human Rights Watch praised Biden for “its use of unprepared and totally distorted sanctions” and for passing the page to Trump’s “global state of justice” page.
Trump, in his last weeks in the cargo, indulged in three soldiers’ condolences held by criminals in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
According to its critics, this is Trump’s governing body’s proposal to sanction the CPI: that the United States has its own legal capacity to guarantee the return of accounts.
The Democratic governors have been more supportive of the CPI, while the United States has been part of the Rome Statute and the intense opposition of the Republicans to its integrity.
The United States Congress approved in 2002 a law authorizing the use of military force to liberate any state party under the auspices of the CPI, which theoretically has the authority of the President to invade the Netherlands, an ally in the OTAN.