The United States is one of several nations that signed but never ratified the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding treaty. “The United States will take the necessary steps to protect its sovereignty and to protect our people from unjust investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court,” the spokesman said. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda attends the trial of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague in August. Besides the United States, not many Western democracies have refused to submit to the court’s jurisdiction. “We feared that the court could eventually pursue politically motivated prosecutions of Americans, and our fears were warranted,” Pompeo said.

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2019 12:07 UTC