He labels the ICC as a 'freewheeling global organisation governing over people without their consent'.
National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, John Bolton, has said the International Criminal Court (ICC) is "dead to us" in his latest speech.
He labelled the court as "illegitimate" and "for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us".
Mr Bolton, who has long held an unfavourable view of the
court, was speaking at a meeting of the Federalist Society, a
conservative group based in Washington DC, said the ICC was
“ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed outright dangerous".
The court, established in 2002 in The Hague in the Netherlands, has the power to prosecute individuals for war crimes, genocide,
and crimes against humanity. The US never ratified the Rome Statute
that established the court and George Mr Bush, in the early days of the
still-ongoing war in Afghanistan, never ratified it.
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Source: The Independent
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