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To: average joe who wrote (15658)	6/30/2002 12:49:03 PM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 23908

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To: average joe who wrote (15658)	6/30/2002 7:10:17 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 23908

U.N. Runs Against Deadline in Row With U.S. on War Crimes Court -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story Filed: Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:53 PM EST UNITED NATIONS, Jun 30, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The U.N. Security Council is due to resume its deliberations at 4 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Sunday, just eight hours before the expiration of the Bosnia mission's mandate. The 15-nation body made the decision as the world body neared a double-edged deadline on Sunday over a U.S. fight to keep its peacekeepers out of the reach of a new global war crimes court. The council was divided 14-1 against the U.S. position after spending Friday in a failed search for common ground. Washington has threatened to veto a draft resolution to renew the U.N. Mission in Bosnia if the council fails to grant immunity for its soldiers and officials working in the Balkan country ahead of a Sunday midnight (0400 GMT Monday) deadline for the mission's mandate to be extended. Midnight also marks the hour the new International Criminal Court comes into force, empowered to prosecute heinous wrongdoing such as gross human rights abuses, genocide and war crimes. No crimes committed prior to Monday can be pursued under the terms of the treaty that created the court, which will be based in The Hague, the Netherlands, and will not actually have a prosecutor or judges until early next year. The United States has renounced the court as a threat to its sovereignty, but Bosnia has ratified it. The U.N. Bosnia mission was launched in 1995 to train a professional multiethnic police force after a three-year war. The United States has 46 police officers in the mission. But rather than simply pull them out of the country to protect them from the new court's grasp, Washington has threatened to veto the draft resolution that would keep the mission alive unless the U.N. satisfied U.S. demands for immunity. That move would shut down the mission. Hans Corell, the top U.N. legal adviser, suggested for the first time on Friday that a U.S. move to end the U.N. mission could also close down the Balkan state's far more strategically important NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force. library.northernlight.com.