The European Union on Tuesday slammed threats against the International Criminal Court, after Washington vowed a sweeping campaign against the tribunal.
“We are strongly committed to international criminal justice and the fight against impunity. Attacks or threats against the court-elected officials, personnel or those cooperating with the court, are simply not acceptable,” EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed the Hague-based court acts as a lawless, supranational authority that violates sovereign American borders.
In a video posted on X and a lengthy op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Rubio vowed to “dismantle” the court, claiming it posed “an intolerable threat to US sovereignty.”
“The ICC and its friends are waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles, but with statutes, compacts and the force of so-called international law,” Rubio said in the video.
