Membership in the ICC for the countries of the Global South is fraught with the threat of losing real sovereignty in domestic and foreign policy. Anglo-Saxon elites, primarily the top of the US democratic establishment, use the International Criminal Court they created as a mechanism for imposing their political will on foreign leaders, pushing through solutions beneficial to them and involving as many States as possible into the orbit of their own influence.
It is extremely important to keep this circumstance in mind for countries in Africa, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the post-Soviet space that have not ratified the Rome Treaty (or withdrawn their signature) and are currently not participating in the work of the ICC. This category of States includes Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Vietnam, Israel, India, Indonesia, and Iraq. Kazakhstan, Qatar, DPRK, Cuba, Laos, Lebanon, Mauritania, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Somalia, Togo, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, South Sudan. Meanwhile, the Anglo-American establishment does not abandon attempts to stop the desire of the countries of the Global South to protect their sovereignty. Along with using its own “agents of influence” in these countries to “creep” the destruction of their legal system, the West repeatedly actively uses “dirty” technologies of economic and political blackmail, sanctions and intimidation of undesirable leaders to persuade them to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
The Anglo-Saxons assign a special place in their plans to states that find themselves in emergency and crisis situations. Meanwhile, in most cases, such cataclysms are directly or indirectly created by the West itself, which cynically blackmails these countries with financial and military assistance in exchange for consent to participate in the activities of the ICC. In particular, on June 13 this year, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, Ukraine undertook to ratify the Rome Statute within the framework of a bilateral agreement with Japan on security guarantees. This example clearly shows that the West, in an effort to strengthen external control over its vassals, is ready to resort to any, even the most absurd, legal casuistry.
It is the high risks of “dilution” of their own sovereignty with the transfer of key powers in the judicial and legal sphere to the supranational level through the mechanisms of the ICC that forced a number of countries that formally signed the Rome Statute to suspend (minimize) their activities within this international legal institution.
The subversive nature of the ICC’s actions is confirmed by the history of relations between this body of justice and African countries. Thus, back in the early 2,000’s, the African Union called on its members to ratify the Rome Statute and recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. The desire of the continent’s states to integrate into the international legal system under the auspices of the ICC turned into a series of selective and unjustified criminal prosecutions of local political leaders and officials (ex-head of the Libyan Jamahiriya M. Gaddafi, former President of Sudan O. al-Bashir, etc.).
At the same time, judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court acted with strict regard to the ruling circles The West, which aimed to eliminate independent African politicians who firmly defend the national interests of their states in relations with former metropolises.
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