USA and the ICC

Audio Visual Resources

Author	Title		Date
New America Media		Interview with Erna Paris on US-ICC	24 July 2009

Factsheets

Author		Date
American NGO Coalition for the ICC (AMICC)	Chronology of US Actions Related to the International Criminal Court	30 Aug 2010

CICC	Comments by US Officials on Situations before the ICC and Cooperation with ICC Investigations	01 Dec 2006

CICC	Overview of the United States Opposition to the International Criminal Court	16 Nov 2006

CICC	Comments by US Officials on the Negative Impact of Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIAs) and the American Servicemembers� Protection Act (ASPA)	16 Nov 2006

CICC	Developments on U.S. Bilateral Immunity Agreements: U.S. Removes Military Training Sanctions from its BIA Campaign through Limited Congressional Amendment and Presidential Waivers	31 Oct 2006

AMICC	Chronology of U.S. Opposition to the ICC: From 'Unsigning' to Immunity Agreements to Darfur	26 Oct 2006

WICC	Status of U.S. Policy on the ICC - Update, Fall 2003	01 Dec 2003

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Government and Inter-governmental Documents

Author		Date
USA	Statement by President Obama on the Promulgation of Kenya's New Constitution	27 Aug 2010

USA	US Engagement with the International Criminal Court and the Outcome of the Recently Concluded Review Con	16 June 2010

USA	Briefing on the International Criminal Court Conference in Kampala, Uganda	02 June 2010

EU Parliament	European Parliament Resolution on EU-US Summit	22 Oct 2009

Rep. Hastings	REP. HASTINGS INTRODUCES RESOLUTION COMMENDING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR ISSUING ARREST WARRANT OF SUDAN'S PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR FOR WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY	13 Mar 2009

Ambassador Susan Rice, USA	Statement by Susan E. Rice on the Expulsion of Humanitarian Groups from Sudan	06 Mar 2009

USA	Daily Press Briefing, Mr. Duguid Acting Deputy Department Spokesman	05 Mar 2009

Ambassador Susan Rice, USA	Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on the ICC's Arrest Warrant for Sudanese President Bashir	04 Mar 2009

Gordon Duguid	Acting Deputy Department Spokesman	04 Mar 2009

Rep. Patrick Kennedy	Statement on the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for war crimes in Darfur	04 Mar 2009

Rep. Payne	REP. PAYNE CALLS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT DECISION ON SUDANESE PRESIDENT EL-BASHIR 'A STEP TOWARDS JUSTICE FOR	04 Mar 2009

US	ICC Arrest Warrant Issued For Sudanese President Bashir	04 Mar 2009

USA	Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, US Permanent Representative, on Respect for International Humanitarian Law, in the Security Council, January 29, 2009	29 Jan 2009

US Presidential Determination Memo	Waiving the Prohibition on the Use of Economic Support Funds with Respect to Various Parties to the ICC	16 Jan 2009

Office of the Mayor, City of Columbus, Ohio	International Justice Day Proclamation, Columbus, Ohio	17 July 2008

Office of the Mayor, New Haven, Connecticut	International Justice Day Proclamation, New Haven, Connecticut	17 July 2008

Office of the Mayor, New York, New York	International Justice Day Proclamation, New York, NY	17 July 2008

U.S. Congressman Donald Payne (NJ)	Payne Commends International Criminal Court on Genocide Charges	15 July 2008

Sean McCormack, Spokesman	�Daily Press Briefing,� Transcript, U.S. Department of State	14 July 2008

U.S. Congressman Scott Garrett (NJ)	Garrett Condemns Administration Dealings with Darfur Terrorist	23 Apr 2008

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (IL)	Letter to President Bush, Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act	21 Feb 2008

U.S. House of Representatives	House Resolution 726 Calling on the President of the United States and the international community to take immediate steps to respond to and prevent acts of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Darfur , Sudan , eastern Chad and the Central	29 Oct 2007

Office of the Mayor, Portland, Oregon	International Justice Day Proclamation, Portland, Oregon	17 July 2007

Office of the Mayor, Terre Haute, Indiana	International Justice Day Proclamation, Terre Haute, Indiana	17 July 2007

John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State	Remarks at a Press Conference in Khartoum	16 Apr 2007

USA	United States Defends Position on International Criminal Court	12 Oct 2005

USA	Press release �United States Abstains on U.N. Darfur War Crimes Resolution�	01 Apr 2005

USA	United States Abstains on U.N. Darfur War Crimes Resolution	01 Apr 2005

USA	Remarks by Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, entitled Post-Election Strategic Priorities for the United States, presented at the Chatham House Conference on Matching Capabilities to Commitments � Can	06 Dec 2004

USA	Explanation of position by Eric Rosand, Legal Advisor of the US mission to the UN, on the adoption of Resolution concerning the International Criminal Court, in the Sixth Committee	19 Nov 2004

USA	Intervention by US Ambassador of War Crimes Issues, Pierre-Richard Prosper, at the Stockholm International Forum: Preventing Genocide; Threats and Responsibilities (Stockholm, Sweden)	26 Jan 2004

USA	Remarks delivered by John R. Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, entitled "American Justice and the International Criminal Court", during a conference at the American Enterprise Institute (Washington, DC)	03 Nov 2003

Nicholas Rostow, General Counsel, U.S. Mission to the United Nations	Statement by the United States following the adoption of the 6th Committee Resolution	23 Oct 2003

USA	Remarks by Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, to the Parliamentarians for Global Action, Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International Criminal Court and the Rule of Law (New York, United Stat	12 Sept 2003

Council of Europe	Provisional edition of Resolution 1336 (2003) "Threats to the International Criminal Court," adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France)	25 June 2003

USA	Remarks by John R. Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, to the Federalist Society on "The United States and the International Criminal Court" (Washington, DC, USA)	14 Nov 2002

USA	Statement made by the United States in the Sixth Committee, regarding the Establishment of the International Criminal Court	14 Oct 2002

Council of Europe	Resolution 1300 (2002): Risks for the integrity of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Strasbourg, France)	25 Sept 2002

Council of Europe	Recommendation 1581 (2002): Risks for the integrity of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Strasbourg, France)	25 Sept 2002

Council of Europe	Report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, entitled "Risks for the integrity of the Statute of the International Criminal Court" (Strasbourg, France)	24 Sept 2002

European Parliament	Resolution on the International Criminal Court, which expressed the European Parliament�s regret for UN Security Council Resolution 1422 and called for universal rejection of so-called Article 98 agreements (Strasbourg, France)	19 Sept 2002

USA	Remarks by John R. Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, at the Aspen Institute (Berlin, Germany)	16 Sept 2002

USA	Interview with Marc Grossman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs by Maurizio Molinari of La Stampa (Italian Newspaper) (Washington, DC)	29 Aug 2002

Trinidad and Tobago	Statement by His Excellency Arthur N.R. Robinson, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, concerning the United States administration�s campaign against the International Criminal Court	23 Aug 2002

EU	Statement by the Spanish Presidency on behalf of the EU regarding the position of the US towards the International Criminal Court (Brussels, Belgium)	14 May 2002

EU	Declarations on behalf of the European Union on the position of the US towards the International Criminal Court (Madrid, Spain and Brussels, Belgium)	13 May 2002

USA	Remarks by Marc Grossman, United States� Under Secretary for Political Affairs, to the Center for Strategic and International Studies on American foreign policy and the ICC (Washington DC, USA)	06 May 2002

USA	Statement by Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes Issues, at the Foreign Press Center Briefing, regarding US renunciation of its signature to the Rome Statute (Washington DC, USA)	06 May 2002

USA	Transcript of remarks by Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes Issues, at UN Headquarters (New York, United States)	28 Mar 2002

USA	Statement by Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, before the House International Relations Committee (Washington, DC)	28 Feb 2002

USA	Address by David Scheffer, former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, at the 50th Anniversary of the Entering into Force of the Genocide Convention (New York, United States)	13 June 2001

USA	Statement by US President Bill Clinton, authorizing the US signing of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Camp David, Maryland, United States)	31 Dec 2000

USA	Remarks by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), during the US Senate Debate on the International Criminal Court (Washington, DC)	15 Dec 2000

USA	Statement by David Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues, at the 12th Annual US Pacific Command International Military Operations and Law Conference (Honolulu, Hawaii, United States)	23 Feb 1999

USA	Statement of David J. Scheffer, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues and head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of a Permanent International Criminal Court, before the Committee on Foreign Relations of t	23 July 1998

USA	Address by David Scheffer, US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, before the Committee of Conscience at the Holocaust Museum (Washington, DC)	22 Apr 1998

USA	Statement by US Delegation to the Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (New York, USA)	23 Mar 1998

USA	Statement by Jamison S. Borek, Deputy Legal Adviser of the US State Department, at the 6th Committee of the UN General Assembly on the establishment of an International Criminal Court (New York, USA)	01 Nov 1995

Legislative Debates

Author	Date and Title
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law	24 June 2008 Hearing on �From Nuremberg to Darfur: Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity"- Statement by Senator Dick Durbin English

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law	24 June 2008 From Nuremberg to Darfur, Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity - Testimony of Diane Orentlicher English

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law	24 June 2008 From Nuremberg to Darfur, Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity, Testimony of Gayle Smith English

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee	11 Apr 2007 Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, J. Stephen Morrison, Director, Africa Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies English

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee	20 Mar 2007 Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Prendergast, Senior Adviser, International Crisis Group English

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary	05 Feb 2007 �Genocide and the Rule of Law,� Testimony by Don Cheadle English

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary	05 Feb 2007 �Genocide and the Rule of Law,� Testimony by Lieutenant General The Honorable Romeo A. Dallaire English

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NGO Letters, Papers, Reports, and Statements

Author		Date
AMICC	Ambassador Rapp Announces Expansion of War Crimes Rewards Program to Include ICC Suspects	03 Apr 2013

AMICC	Letter to Obama	17 July 2010

American Branch of the International Law Association	Recommendations for future U.S. policy towards the ICC	12 Mar 2010

CICC	Bibliography on the United States and the ICC	21 July 2006

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY)	Letter from ABCNY President E. Leo Milonas to President George W. Bush, noting the importance of the International Criminal Court and calling for an end to US opposition (New York, New York, USA)	11 Mar 2003

Philadelphia Bar Association	Resolution regarding US support for the International Criminal Court (Philadelphia, USA)	24 Oct 2002

FIDH	No to American Exceptionalism - Under Cover of the War Against Terrorism, a destructive offensive against the ICC (13 pages)	01 Oct 2002

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NGO Media Statements

Author		Date
Human Rights First	Expanded Rewards for Justice Program Makes Atrocity Prevention National Priority	04 Apr 2013

ASIL	ASIL Task Force: US should adopt policy of positive engagement with the International Criminal Court.	24 Mar 2009

UN-USA Association	United Nations Association Of USA Statement In Support Of ICC Prosecutor Actions On Darfur And U.S. Engagement To Ensure ICC Arrest Warrants Are Not Blocked	25 July 2008

Institute for War and Peace Reporting	Sudan; Washington Softens Stance on ICC	07 Mar 2007

Citizens for Global Solutions	U.S. Recognizes Counterproductive Foreign Policy: Bush waives aid cuts for ICC member states	29 Nov 2006

CICC	US Delivers a �Lump of Coal� Before Christmas with its Continued Attempts to Delete ICC References from UN Security Council Resolution on the Protection of Civilians	22 Dec 2005

CICC	US� Attempts to Delete ICC from UN Security Council Resolution Undermine Advances Made	16 Dec 2005

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Quotes and Statements

Author		Date
American Branch of the International Law Association ICC Committee	Letter to the US Government on Recommendation for future U.S. policy towards the ICC	18 Mar 2010

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY)	Letter from ABCNY President E. Leo Milonas to President George W. Bush, noting the importance of the International Criminal Court and calling for an end to US opposition (New York, New York, USA)	11 Mar 2003

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY)	Letter to President George W. Bush promoting the ICC (New York, USA)	10 Apr 2002

Benjamin B. Ferencz	Call to action for the ICC by Prof. Ferencz, Former Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor (New York, USA)	08 Apr 2002

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