The Trump administration on Friday imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of a campaign to cripple the tribunal over its investigations involving the United States and allies including Israel, the Associated Press reported.
“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a video. The sanctions bar the court from U.S. financial services and technology companies and from using U.S. dollars, and give American firms six months to wind down business with it.
The announcement came the same day the Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge. U.S. officials said the timing was coincidental.
The Hague-based court, the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, condemned the move, and several U.S. allies criticized it.
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