US Suspends Military Aid to 35 Countries over ICC

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US Suspends Military Aid to 35 Countries over ICC

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The United States have suspended over 47 million US dollars in military aid to 35 countries which have failed or refused to grant US citizens immunity from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the State Department said.

"We've calculated that a total of 35 states would be subject tothese restrictions. That is, they are recipients of US military assistance; they're parties to the International Criminal Court; and they've not been exempted as a NATO member or major non-NATO ally, or signed an Article 98 agreement," spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters.

The Article 98 of the Treaty of Rome, which created the ICC, allows countries to make bilateral arrangements to exempt each other's citizens from being extraditing for prosecution by the ICC.

Under the US law adopted last year, those nations, which have signed and ratified the Treaty of Rome but failed to reach Article98 agreements with the United States, may face suspension of US military assistance as from July 1.

Under the provisions of the American Service Members ProtectionAct, NATO members as well as some US-designated "major non-NATO allies" were exempted from such sanctions, as decided by PresidentGeorge W. Bush on Tuesday.

Boucher did not provide a full list of the 35 nations subject to US sanctions but agencies reports said the sanctions affect countries like Colombia, South Africa, the Baltic states, Bulgaria,Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

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