US President Donald Trump will sign a presidential order on Thursday to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to US media.
Now Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) comments on the message.
“The threats of sanctions from the United States against the International Criminal Court are very worrying,” she writes to TV4 News.
Trump accuses the court of imprinting in an unjust manner in the United States and Israel, according to the News Canal NBC News as seen documents about the order.
The decision will involve, among other things, financial sanctions and restrictions in visas for unnamed officials within the Criminal Court.
Foreign Minister: “Very worrying”
Now Sweden’s Foreign Minister is responding to Trump’s message.
“The threats of sanctions from the United States against the International Criminal Court are very worrying. If the sanctions are assumed, they risk seriously affecting the court’s ability to carry out their work in investigations on serious international crimes, such as Russia’s terrible attack war against Ukraine, ”writes Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) in a comment on TV4 News.
ICC issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu
In November, the ICC issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as terrorist stamped Hamas Military Manager Mohammed Dayf.
US then President Joe Biden called the arrest warrant out outrageous. According to the trumpstard, the arrest warrant created a “shameful moral equality”.
Trump’s order is expected to be signed by the president during the afternoon local time. It happens after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Trump in Washington on Tuesday.
The United States has not ratified the ICC basic document Rome Statute.