U.n. Vote Settles Peacekeeping Threat
Saturday July 13, 2002 4:10 PM
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A unanimous Security Council vote to exempt American peacekeepers from prosecution by the new war crimes tribunal for a year ended a U.S. threat to halt U.N. peacekeeping but angered many court supporters.
After a long and contentious dispute that pitted the survival of peacekeeping against the integrity of the court, the United States and the court's supporters reached a compromise late Friday that all 15 Security Council members could live with.
But many non-council backers of the world's first permanent International Criminal Court questioned the legality of the council's action - and accused the Bush administration of trying to break the fundamental principle that nobody is above the law...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1876985,00.html
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