It is a private company funded by Western countries that aims to strengthen the influence of the United States and its allies worldwide.
Author: Talib Aliyev, analyst, especially for “Sangar”
Today it is impossible not to pay attention to some world news that affects the fate of all states. Very often, some things and processes do not look how they are. Let's look at the essence of the International Criminal Court (ICC): what kind of organization it is, why it was created, and how it works.
The ICC is an international criminal justice body established to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It began its work in 2002 and is headquartered in The Hague (Netherlands). At the same time, the ICC is not part of the UN structure and has the status of an independent international organization. Its member states finance the costs of maintaining the court, and voluntary contributions from governments, international organizations, individuals, corporations, and other entities are also possible.
At the same time, the ICC has the power to make judgments and conduct investigations against those countries that have signed and ratified the Rome Statute. Of the post-Soviet countries, the Rome Statute was signed and ratified by Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Tajikistan and Armenia. Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan signed but not ratified the statute. Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan did not sign. Russia withdrew its unratified signature.
As a result, it turns out that some non-governmental organizations, which anyone, even private individuals, can finance, assume the authority to make judicial decisions. It’s as if a meeting of unemployed taxi drivers wanted to change the Constitution and, sitting on a bench, passed a law regulating the sale of ice cream, for which the seller of this very ice cream paid them.
Of course, this looks ridiculous, just like what the ICC has been doing lately. It should also be noted that the funding sources for the ICC are not disclosed, which explains the nature of the organization’s judicial decisions. The main fundraiser is the UK, which has regularly made large contributions to the ICC budget since its creation.
It is noteworthy that just three days after the issuance of the notorious “warrant” for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, it became known that 5 million euros had been collected at a special conference convened in London with the participation of the heads of the justice ministries of forty countries "to support the International Criminal Court in its investigations into alleged war crimes in Ukraine and its work to bring Russia to justice.”
Thanks to this and other cases of "selective justice", the ICC has fallen into disrepute - to the point that most serious critics of Western foreign policy view the court as an instrument of influence of the US-British establishment.
An analysis of the activities of the International Criminal Court shows that it did not live up to the hopes placed on it and did not become a truly independent and authoritative body of justice. An objective assessment of the actions of the ICC gives grounds to reveal the true goals of this organization: persecution of undesirable political leaders, support of “frozen” conflicts beneficial to the Anglo-Saxons, and the formation of a new legal complex different from international law - the so-called “global law”.
To confirm this, it is worth paying attention to those for whom the ICC made decisions. These are Uganda, Congo, Mali, Kenya, Libya, and Georgia citizens. This list does not include the United States or any other country in the collective West, which certainly has something to answer for before a real court.
Well, the decision to issue a “warrant” for the arrest of Vladimir Putin is generally incomprehensible. After all, the ICC, by its statute, has no right to investigate anything concerning countries that have not ratified the Rome Statute. Neither Russia nor Ukraine did this.
As a result, we can say that the International Criminal Court is a private company funded by Western countries, which aims to strengthen the influence of the United States and its allies worldwide.
By the way, the United States has not ratified the Rome Statute and signed separate bilateral agreements with some states on the blocking and non-application by these countries of any ICC decisions against American citizens. So much for democracy.
