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hello and welcome to the program. i'm not inside. the executive orders are still coming. second falls, the latest sanctions on the international criminal court. president donald trump says that the i c c abuses, it's power taking quotes illegitimate and baseless actions against the united states on its ally as well. he also says it's investigates as a threat to national security. so how does this affect the army course with the ability to prosecute genocide and will crimes? and is the very concept of a rules based international order on the threats will try to answer these questions without panel of guests in a moment. but 1st, this report by michael apple is basically to drive the man with the stroke of his pin us president. donald trump has impose sanctions on the international criminal quotes in the hey, his executive order references what he calls illegitimate and based this actions targeting america. and israel and then unprecedented move the i c. c issued

interest bar in full prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and he's been defense minister in november last year to prosecute to considered israel's actions in gaza . with the military has killed more than 60000 palestinians and displaced 2000000 car him con, also issued warrants for how much is needed him, all of whom have since been killed, scandalous and corrupt organization. the i, c. c. the truck is the right of all democracies to defend themselves, but it's not the 1st time comes, administration has targeted the un back court. it gives us no joy to punish them. he went off to the former chief, prosecute to 5 to ben su dot. when she investigated the actions of american forces in afghanistan, but this time washington's gone for the, designating the icy sees work as a threat to national security and

u. s. foreign policy. this executive order puts the united states on the side of war, criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes, seeking justice, 125 of the worlds, 193 countries. a signature used to the rome statute, recognizing the jurisdiction of the i. c. c. or at least they're obligated to in 2015 despite an icy c, a risk bore in full crimes and off for solve africa failed to arrest sedans. amaro bush. yeah. when he attended an african union summits in johanna spec. similarly, mongolia rolled out the red carpet for rushes. president vladimir, put in the last year. this regarding an icpc, a risk warrant for crimes in ukraine. both south africa and mongolia, or among 179 nations who pledge their unwavering support for the independence and

integrity of the i. c. c. in the wake of transactions, it talks about not only sanctioning the actual staff members of the i, c, c, u, prosecutors of the i c c. but also people who cooperate with the i c. c in the investigation and she was really official. so, you know, you're talking about the human rights activists. victim's face been wide spread global condemnation of this perceived attack on the highest criminal court in the world. experts, one trumps america. first agenda could shift to universal principles of accountability and equality before the law, with severe consequences for human rights to come. michael level l g 0 for inside story. well, the let springing all guests from

new york with joined by william pace to form a convenience fee coalition for the international criminal court in geneva is kenneth ross visiting professor at princeton school for public and international affairs and the former executive director of human rights watch also in new york is david l. phillips and jumped professor at georgetown university school of foreign service. i'm a full met senior advisor to the us state department. welcome to or if you gentlemen kind of, i want to start with you. why is trump doing this? america's not even a member of the i c c. so what is trump's motivation in carrying out this executive order? well trumps view of international justice is that is for other people, not for americans or their allies and their been elements of disposition, but the us government has maintained going back to the origins of the dreadful criminal court at the original negotiations in rome, that was the main us position where they were happy with the court having

jurisdiction by a means that washington could control. so you know, they, they were okay with the gap insurance diction over the citizens of governments that joined the court. because the us government had no intention of joining, they were okay with jurisdiction confirmed confirmed by the un security council, because washington could use and speak out. but what they didn't want was jurisdiction by virtue of where the crime took place on the territory given member state. and that's what's at issue involved because palestine has joined the court of the us doesn't like that because it could implicate in american theoretically they could implicate these re lease as it has. but this was a position that was rejected in rome. the us last about by account of a 120 to 7, wasn't even clubs, and the binding administration. actually a band in that position when proven was charged because russia never joined the

court, but prudent was chargeable because his crimes renew crane, which had confer jurisdiction. so the u. s. government changes position is that okay, we can live with this territory. i was restriction, but then trump lived, and she, you know, talked about the possibility of an american be prosecuted, but give it that. what do you really, to was an old investigation in afghanistan, where the current prosecutor made clear that it doesn't implicate americans. but the real issue here is that, you know, there's always been an israel exception to us foreign policy. and trump was just on a bashed about this because not 10 yahoo and call on to our charge. she is declared war. i mean, i see, see, or, well, the most tennis right here, trump does have a precedence photography in the i. c. c. he did it in his 1st time. he's sanction thought to been sued to who was then the i. c, c's chief, prosecute to a full, a alleged will crimes by us on forces and i've got a song, but this time it does appear. he's gone even a step further. yes. so i think what we're seeing now is an extraordinary

misuse of executive authority by the office of the president of the, you know, of the united states in the previous sanctions. it was focusing on the prosecutor and the judges. for this one now has gone way, way beyond that to the point that the banks are servicing the court. the interpreters of people working on victims issues of health people look at the car all over in g o's who are have been human rights activists and supporting the court for the last 30 years. the treaty and the establishment of the court. so the scale, the, the breath of this and, and even beyond, just as i say, see this executive decision is,

is one that i think is hopefully going to be found a legal, unconstitutional. and i, i hope it will be able to be supported for the sake of the international community of, or a 125. the governments are in the court now $75.00 of them within 48 hours, came out with objections to this initiative. and i hope we can take this opportunity of in this, in this period, because the vast majority of citizens everywhere don't know about the i c, c. this is on the top priority for them. so i think this is going to be an important opportunity to educate people about the extraordinary achievement that was the international criminal court treaty in 1998. and it's rod application that in 2010 and $2.00. and this was a, one of the very last of what was now, unfortunately,

we realize that go on and age and the post cold war period where we had tremendous strengthening of the international legal order. and of course, the wrong statute for the international criminal court is premier amongst those are treatments. one of them i want to come back to your point about the impact of the sanctions on, on the i c. c, the work it does. but david, 1st i want to ask you what message do trumps actions against the i c c here? say about the us is relationship with as well. is he sending a message essentially to the world you talk to you as well, but us will come off to you as a viewer, as real exceptionalism or the allegations that have been brought against israel that to do with using fluid as a weapon, restricting paid to the palestinian people and targeting civilians. i trump has

a general to stay in for international justice is shown at the stand for justice here in the united states as well given has reset actions. suntrust approach to the international criminal court in good family is real context. suggest is real due towards international justice and his approach that provides exceptionalism to his room based on the fear that the court might take action against the united states as well. for some procedure defense in the future. to kenneth, from a legal point of view, how punitive all these sanctions, how are they going to impact the operational capacity of the icpc when it comes to prosecuting high profile will crimes, particularly in context like syria and gaza, where there are 2 dimensions to the sanctions one, our travel restrictions,

basically preventing people from visiting the united states and the court can live without that. but the author, her financial functions, and those are much more serious because it looks as if the us government is going to say that no bank can do business with the court or it's personnel. and that could freeze the court. now there is an answer to this, they are opinion, hasn't acted what's called the blocking statute. and it theoretically put, put in place on banking measures that would insure it or put it to give the court. and it's personnel is going to have to move quickly. but that i think it's the answer. everybody has seen this coming and hopefully they're being able be ready to move so that the court can continue to do what's important, mr. william. the other concern his that trouble. this executive order talks not only about sanctioning the staff members of the i, c, c, but also people who work with the i, c, c and in the investigation. how significant is that?

well, i mean, i think this is a huge problem because it's not uh, limited to of those who are most responsible for conducting the out of the trial or an enforcement of the wrong statute. it is so broad that it concerns almost anyone who works at the court. is it going to concern possibly international human rights organizations that work on victims issues that have a condemned crimes against humanity, genocide, and more crimes. for many years it is such a broad executive boarder that it could be very, very badly misused by the trip the tropic ministration. and i hope that the senate, we're very pleased that the senate refused to endorse the house bill,

which was very similar to the president's executive order of. but we will hope that take the senate might come back and say that that the executive order goes too far, and we hope that the courts might do the same. so william can i also ask at the impact of the sanctions on the stuff, how demoralizing is it on the i c c stuff and how do you think it's going to impact the ability to do that jobs going forward? well, if you have a relatives in the united states and you cannot visit them if you have a financial connections with a bank, so it could be implicated the, the, the, the fear now of the over rates of the uh, compet administration in their, the way they have taken over the justice department are taking over the f, b i, et cetera. i mean, i would think that many people, oh,

believe very worried. i had to thank you yesterday. uh, who should i do this type of an interview because of the danger of this new administration in the united states and repressing of civil liberties? i appreciate your honesty on that david, all the, any international legal metabolism. so b i c c can use to challenge will counteract these us sanctions. and what is the likelihood of the i c c actually retaliation in this way or further 79 countries, but out of getting to the us sanctions on the i c. c. so that is 9 your international public opinion. but we've, we've seen from trump in the past is he has disregard for public opinion, both on the us hand internationally. so it's very little that can be done against the trumpet. ministration wants to impose gravel and economic sanctions. at the

international community needs to organize itself, needs to speak with one voice expressing concern about this miscarriage, of international justice. only that is their hope of correcting this problem and getting the us back in line with the international system. but david, you talk that about speaking with one voice, but we know that no old countries have publicly condemned this move by trump, australia, the czech republic, hungry actually, uh, the old not been signatories on a joint statement issue to condemn trumps executive order. how significant is that very significant that these countries are refusing to align themselves with an international outreach over this decision? it says something about us power and influence. the court isn't just the legal by, it's a political by and it wheels enormous influence with countries. many of whom i business

are interested in the united states. all the countries you just mentioned, for example, if the us wants to wield its influence to suppress international justice, countries are going to have to make a decision on their own and in tandem. is this a system situation that they can tolerate? and if not, what can be done about it? the timing subject lines around the world are gleeful, because the us is broken, trustworthy, i see, say, send a clear message that it won't abide by international norms. when it comes to international justice, and this is a real risk for the i, c, c and the whole international order and system. david's, what are the political repercussions to the sanctions when it comes to relationships between the united states and its traditional allies in europe,

who have expressed support for the allies, the se, in many countries in europe have expressed support and of the us is so far been indifferent to their plays and it's difficult to see what those countries can do, given the power and influence of the us. but if countries come together and they share their concerns, it's not like one of us is going to listen. cycling, talk to ministration will double down, but it's important that the international community express it's average so that it's on record of conjecturing these actions. and also in trying international justice as a core principle of the international system. to tell us, what do you make of victor old bands, comments that countries should question the implications of continuing to support

a us sanctioned institution or, i mean that's classic big or bonded if i could, could i come back to your earlier question because where you would ask sort of, what are the remedies here and, you know, i've been, i different with be all the standard is not going to add to your and in the senate alone for the back end, you have would be the house with it. and trump would have to sign. so i mean that there's just not going to be legislation here from, nor is there really, you know, an international legal solution with one exception. and that's what i want to focus off on. if you look at the wrong statute, there is a crime that is essentially obstruction of justice. you interfere with or try to intimidate for personnel because of their actions because of their official duties . you can be charged with interference with the administration of justice service, but the kind of i called the destruction of justice. this is a crime under the statute. now trump was vulnerable to charges last time when he impose sanctions on the former prosecutor, budget, and suda, and her deputy palm,

she in essence terms of the other cheek. she didn't pursue it. but chron. com, the current prosecutor's, a different kind of guy. and he wouldn't surprise me at all if his response to this way he meant to effort to interfere with an independent international draft. this institution would be to church from with this crime. now we can say, oh, what is trump care? you know, he's already been sure, i mean, criminal in new york. i'm back, you know, he kept talking himself, there's no constitutional bar here. and, well, you know, i don't think he has to worry about being suddenly arrested. but what happened is that a good number of that was a 125 number states of the i c c. but basically tell from, don't show up, because we don't want to face this dilemma between arresting you versus wedding up to our obligations to the court. and so something like a lot of the world would be out of balance and you know, he could turn, you should turn to his side prove insights, get a platinum or how it suspend. you know, you didn't get to go to the brick summit because you were charged, you know what,

it was not being able to travel around the world to think about this and, and see whether it really wants to sustain this blatant default. and the court building, do you agree with what kind of says saying that, can we expect more from the i c c prosecutor and i'm, i'm not sure i, i would welcome of a court proceeding with any efforts to uh, 6 uh, illegally interfere with their mandate as a treaty that's been signed by 125 countries. i didn't want to imply, i thought that the can't that, that they said it was going to pass a positive law. what i was talking about was making sure we have 5 or 6 of the republican senators that will not go along with this misuse of executive power by the president. and i also really think that the efforts to try and continue to rally that you had 75 governments within 48 hours,

assign a lot of letters and communication against the trump executive border is extremely important. and i think of another aspect of this is the united states, not only was the primary reason, there was a number of tri rentals. and like primary reason there is a united nations. but the united us hosts the united nations. the prosecutor has to be able to come to testify before the security council once or twice a year. so there are a whole bunch of efforts by the trump administration to take fundamental us of commitments in international law and diplomacy and rec, this again. and i hope that we will have between civil society and governments. governments at all levels at the local state national level in the united states

and that other levels are coming out to complain. again, this was one of the premier achievements of the post cold war period, which was probably the most the fundamental strengthening of the international legal order. since the immediate post war structures in the 1945, the 1950 period. and we need to remind the world of the enormous advances that have been made and we need to try and go back on this extreme isolationism and authoritarianism. and then get back to democratic rule of law constitutional democratic principles. kenneth, is that an even wide? uh, fallout, implication, hit on global justice. does this executive order set a dangerous precedent for all the countries to undermine international justice metabolisms? well, obviously, you know,

somebody wants to flag international justice that site to trump banking, or they could have done that. and his 1st term to and that did not destroy international injustice. i've been, you know, people recognize that trump is an utterly unprincipled man that he has. this is, there is no exception to us adherence, choose human rights policy. and here what we saw last time is that auburn government stepped into the breach. it always office with the naturally human rights council of trump withdrew from and we start with the law from federal court, which frankly is stronger today that it was, you know, 4 years ago when, when trump was less than office. so, you know, well, yes, international justice takes a shift. i think most governments believe in the i t. c. they understand the importance of having an institution that upholds human rights. you know, even if national courts have been compromised and they're going to push through trumps instruction as i'm, you know, despite his wishes. but i don't think this effort is going to succeed. william,

how do international legal institutions adapt and remain effective essentially, to the changing politically the politically charged global environment we're in well, again, i think i've tried to demonstrate that over whelming majority of the governments are supporting of the wrong statute in the international criminal court. the overwhelming majority of governments want to see ruled wall work. they do not want to have been power is like the united states and rush up be able to just ignore international humanitarian law. it is a complete tragedy that this has, has, has developed in the last 1520 years. and i hope we can begin to, to reverse that. and perhaps the kind of recklessness and immorality of the trump administration and the even the, the, the,

the other congressional efforts that hopefully that of rationality will inspire the rest of the world. or many people, many of the governments and the rest of the world is to stand up and not associate, but the trump effort to undermine and the previous us government efforts to undermine course. incidentally, it should be, i think, pointed out that over the last 15 years, the united states mostly did participate within the, the court and the assembly of state parties. in fact, the united states delegation to the treaty body was always at least twice as large as any other delegation. and they were there as, as not as a state party, but as a uh, a signatory of the wrong group, the wrong statute. and of course rushed here also signed the wrong statute back in

2000. so 2001. so it is very important. i think that we continue to do everything we can to expand the support around the world. and perhaps, as i said, the trump in ministration will actually bring a lot of countries in south east asia, in africa, central america, of eastern europe, et cetera, closer to supporting the clock instead of moving the other way. thank you so much for all your thoughts to will i guess, went in pace. kenneth, well david l. phillips, we are out of time. thank you for all your analysis and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website. i'll just say we're adult calm. i'm for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha. inside story. you can also join the conversation on x on handle is at a j inside story. for me, my insight and the whole team here,

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