Donald Trump has announced sanctions against the International Criminal Court. According to the expert, the law in the United States in 2002 even obliges to attack the Hague.
Trump’s recent measures are part of a broader withdrawal of several international institutions and rule -based world order, says professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki Teivo Teivainen EPN’s first morning.
– has been withdrawn from WHO, has been withdrawn from the Paris Climate Convention, with withdrawal from human rights organizations in the UN. The new measure is a sequel, says Teivainen.
US president Donald Trump Signed an implementation order on Thursday to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The United States has always been critical but now attitude has changed
Teivainen points out that the United States has been critical of ICC in the past and has not participated in or accepted its jurisdiction.
However, according to Teivainen, the United States used to emphasize that the court is an important institution, even though the country did not want to subdue US soldiers to its jurisdiction.
“Now this attitude has become much more critical and we want to suppress the ICC’s ability to operate,” says Teivainen.
There is a law in the United States that may oblige you to attack in Holland
Teivainen points out that there is a law in the United States that obliges the federal state to attack the Netherlands if the ICC arrests in the Netherlands in the Netherlands are in the US.
This so -called Aspa law (American Service-Members’ Protection Act, the US Military Conservation Act) was made in 2002 George Bush by the younger. Among other things, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch criticized At that time, the law called “Hague’s offensive law”.
So the tensions of the US and the NATO country are not a new thing, Teivainen recalls. Now that the tensions between the United States and Denmark are on display, as early as the early 2000s, it was considered what if the United States really attacked in the Netherlands.
– like [ASPAn] Obligations show, the tensions are not just invented by Trump, but there has been a lot of criticism of ICC in the United States before, says Teivainen.
Trump signed a regulation on sanctions on ICC, despite the fact that the US Senate voted against the sanctions in January.
According to civil service sources, sanctions are targeted at ICC reports that deal with US citizens and allies of the country, such as Israel.