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EU Compomise Not Enough For Bush: USA Wants Total Exemption in World Court

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday October 10, 2002 11:54author by just us

incredible but not surprising

A top State Department envoy left for Europe today to try to persuade several governments to ignore a recent European Union compromise on the international criminal court that would exempt only some Americans from prosecution.

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The United States hopes to sign agreements with 190 countries exempting all Americans from the reach of the court in their territories.

So far, only 13 countries have reached such agreements, including Romania, Israel, Micronesia and Gambia.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/09/international/09COUR.html

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