Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:52:18 EDT
From: freemanaz@aol.com
Subject: [azpeace] ICC Petition Reminder & News Update
To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com


April 10, 2002


PETITION REMINDER

If you have not signed our petition to President Bush asking him to rescind 
the signature of the U.S. authorized by former President Clinton to the 
International Criminal Court Treaty, please do so now.  We are making final 
arrangements to present them to the White House.

Link to Petition:  http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/icc_petition_online.htm

NEWS UPDATE

Nations line up to make landmark court a reality  by Evelyn Leopold, 
India-Reuters, Wed Apr 10, 5:04 AM ET [excerpt]

A long time in coming, the world's first permanent International Criminal 
Court to prosecute mankind's most heinous crimes becomes a reality at a U.N. 
ceremony on Thursday, despite militant opposition from the United States.

Enough nations will have ratified the 1998 Rome statutes for the tribunal to 
bring the total, from the present 56 states, to well above the 60 needed to 
activate the treaty. 

'It is an extremely significant moment in world history, the achievement of 
this court,' said David Scheffer, the former U.S. ambassador for war crimes 
in the Clinton administration. 

Ireland, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Mongolia, Rome, Bosnia, Slovakia, the Democratic 
Republic of the Congo and Jordan, among others, are submitting ratification 
papers for the court on Thursday, pulling approvals over the 60 mark.


The Liberty Committee
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org

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