| July 2, 2003 | - The United States suspended military aid to almost 50 countries, including Colombia, that have failed to promise they will not send American war criminals to the International Criminal Court.
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Daily Telegraph
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| June 25, 2002 | -
The United States said that it would not participate in United Nations peacekeeping missions unless American troops were granted immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
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| November 13, 2001 | - House and Senate negotiators agreed to ban any United States cooperation with the International Criminal Court because of fears that Americans could be charged with war crimes.
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| July 3, 2001 | - Sweden, whose police recently shot unarmed protesters with live ammunition, ratified the International Criminal Court.
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| January 9, 2001 | - An aide to President-designate George W. Bush said that Bush did not intend to send the treaty creating the International Criminal Court to the Senate for approval; aides said they would try to undo other last-minute actions by President Clinton as well.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
President Clinton signed the 1998 Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court over the objections of the Pentagon and many Republicans, who on this subject do perhaps protest too much.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Yugoslavia, unlike the United States, joined the International Criminal Court.
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| December 12, 2000 | - Many countries were trying unsuccessfully to get the United States to join the International Criminal Court; Henry Kissinger and other former U.S. government officials, who perhaps had good reason to be personally alarmed, wrote a letter denouncing the court as an invasion of American sovereignty.
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| August 29, 2000 | -
Britain will join an international criminal court that will have jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity; the United States still refuses to join the court, which fifteen countries have joined to date.
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