US vows campaign to end ICC ‘intolerable threat’ to American sovereignty

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The United States has launched a campaign to oppose the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing it of threatening American sovereignty. The campaign includes threats of sanctions against the Hague-based tribunal, with US officials framing the ICC's actions as a legal 'war' against the US.

The United States on Monday announced a campaign against the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the tribunal of posing “an intolerable threat to US sovereignty” and threatening sanctions. “The ICC and its friends are waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles, but with statutes, compacts and the force of so-called international law,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a video statement. The State Department said in a statement the campaign will...