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Pastimes : GET THE U.S. OUT of The U.N NOW! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (43)	3/29/2002 5:08:00 PM
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Global court moves closer to reality timesofindia.indiatimes.com REUTERS [ THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002 11:55:43 PM ] NITED NATIONS: Despite heavy US opposition, the first permanent global criminal court to try individuals for the world’s most heinous crimes is only four nations shy of becoming a reality. As of Wednesday, 139 countries have signed a 1998 treaty to establish the International Criminal Court and 56 of them have ratified it. A total of 60 ratifications by national legislatures is needed for the tribunal to be established. "We’re creeping very close to the 60 ratifications needed," UN spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters. Bill Pace, head of Coalition for the International Criminal Court, an advocacy group, expects all 60 ratifications to be completed by mid-April, the next preparatory commission meetings for the court. Countries are now jockeying to see who will become the 60th nation. Among those said to be preparing to hand in ratification papers are Bulgaria, Romania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Greece, diplomats said. The court would try those accused of mass murders, war crimes and other gross human rights violations and is expected to be set up in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2003. But no one can be prosecuted for crimes committed before that time. The UN Security Council has established two ad hoc courts: for war crimes during the 1990s Balkan wars and for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. But the International Criminal Court would be the first permanent criminal tribunal, modeled after the Nazi trials at the end of World War II. European nations and Canada have taken the lead in supporting the court. All European Union members, except for Greece and Ireland, have ratified the court statutes, negotiated in Rome in 1998. Latin American and African nations were also in the forefront in approving the court.