WASHINGTON — The State Department will impose “further sanctions” on the International Criminal Court in response to its attempts to charge American service members, according to a US official and an internal memo reviewed by The Post.
The official said that diplomatic posts were receiving warnings Thursday that “further ICC action” was imminent, while the memo cited longstanding grievances with the US not being a signatory to the court’s founding treaty.
“The ICC seeks to become the unaccountable global arbiter – positioning itself above and beyond the nation state as a supranational judicial arm of a globalist bureaucracy empowered to persecute American servicemen and officials at will without authority and as an affront to our sovereignty,” the memo stated.
“It must be clear, once and for all, that the ICC can pose no threat to those who did not accept its authority,” the memo added.
“Building on the U.S. campaign to assemble a coalition of countries willing to reject the Court’s assault on State sovereignty, the United States has no choice but to impose further sanctions.”
American diplomats were informed of the pending sanctions following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Wednesday speech in Athens, Greece, in which he denounced attempts “to abolish the sovereignty of nations” and praising “the unapologetic pursuit of national power.”
