US attempts to achive bilateral agreements to avoid ICC jurisdiction
 President Bush signs anti-ICC Nethercutt Amendment and sanctions
countries that support the ICC.
Radio Nizkor with the collaboration of the Schell Center for International Human Rights
at Yale Law School, 20Dec04 (19m 20ss)
Helen of the Hague: The ICC and U.S.- EU
differences.
By Paul Janiczek, National Review Magazine, 07Oct03
The U.S. Government and the International Criminal Court.
By
Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, United Nations, New York, 12Sept03
Croatia Leans Toward Immunity for US Troops.
By Beth Kampschror,
CNSNews.com Correspondent, CNS News, 19Aug03
U.S. Confronts EU On War Crimes Court; Immunity Pact Issue Threatens
Relations.
By Colum Lynch, Washington Post Staff Writer, Washington, 10Jun03
The Wrong Kind of American Exceptionalism.
By Barbara
Crossette, U.N. Wire, U.N. Notebook, August 18, 2003
Micronesia about to sign an agreement, thus joining Romania,
Israel, East Timor, the Marshall Islands, Afghanistan, Honduras, Uzbekistan, Mauritania, Dominican Republic, Palau and Tajikistan.
Associated Press, 24Sep02.
US Launches Offensive Against ICC.
By the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice, Aug02.
Text of agreement between the US and East Timor.
Signed August 23, 2002
U.S. and Romania sign Article 98 Agreement to protect Americans from surrender to the ICC.
Press Statement, Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman, Washington, D.C., August 1, 2002.
Coalition for the ICC Memo on Art. 98 of the Rome Statute and the Bilateral Agreements Proposed by US Government.
NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court - 23Aug02.
Proposed text of Article 98 Agreements with the United States.
US Legislation in relation with the ICC
American Servicemembers' Protection Act - ASPA.
H.R.4775.ENR, 24Jul02.
The House and the Senate approved on July 2002 the 'Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery from the Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States', which contains the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (ASPA) prohibiting U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
On August 2, 2002, President George W. Bush signed H.R. 4775. The American Servicemembers' Protection Act became U.S. law.
Chronology of ICC-Related US Legislation.
Washington Working Group on the ICC, The World Federalist Association USA - Aug02.
The UN and the US pressure
John D. Negroponte, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, welcomes SC Resolution granting one-year exemption from ICC for peacekeepers.
U.S. Mission to the United Nations Official Release. NY, 12Jul02.
Security Council Resolution 1422 (2002), shielding UN peacekeepers from prosecution by the International Criminal Court for one year.
S/RES/1422 (2002). 12Jul02.
President Bush 'unsigns' the Rome Treaty of the ICC
Text of the letter to UN Secretary General from US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, John R. Bolton.
The US notifies the UN the withdrawal of its signature from the ICC treaty. 06May02.
Mr. Grossman explains in Washington why president Bush thinks that democracies improve through impunity.
Remarks to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Washington, DC. May 6, 2002.
Statement of US Senator Patrick Leahy on the Bush administration's decision to
'unsign' the rome treaty
[ENG] Washington, 6may02
Excerpt of Secretary of State Colin Powell's interview, in which he talks about the US withdrawal from the ICC.
Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State,05May02
The Bush admnistration is ready to announce it will withdraw the signatures on the ICC treaty and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
05May02.
US Weighing New Doctrine for Tribunals.
By Neil A. Lewis, The New York Times, 21Apr02.
Other Important Documents
The Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction.
Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. July 2001.
The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction.
By Henry Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, July / August, 2001
A Nuremberg Prosecutor's Response to Henry Kissinger's essay "The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction".
Benjamin B. Ferencz, 02Jul01.
Remarks by Senator Jesse Helms to the United Nations Security Council
Federal News Service, 20Jan00.
"We must slay this monster".
By Jesse Helms. Financial Times, 31Jul98.
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