Press Release: Commissioner Patten on the International Criminal Court

The press release provides the response by Commissioner Chris Patten to Robert Kagan's article published in the Washington Post in July 2002 on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr Patten underlines that key concerns of the United States were taken up in the Rome Treaty establishing the ICC. He also argues that U.S. opposition to the ICC threatens international stability, because it poses practical problems for the renewal of U.N. peacekeeping mandates around the world.

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