Center for Countermeasures against Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents Statement on U.S. Executive Order Imposing Sanctions on ICC

The Technical Secretariat of the Center for Countermeasures against Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents align with the statement issued by the European Union on the U.S executive Order imposing Sanction on the International Criminal Court. The sanctions impose by the United State of America on the International Criminal Court will bring a setback to the United Nation office for disarmament Affairs, as most of the treaty that ban the use of Weapon of Mass Destruction are against war crimes, genocide and human right violation. The Weapons of Mass destruction are tools used to perpetrate these crimes which is against International Humanitarian Law. The United State of America has been the pivot and one of the major founders of the ICC for the years dated back as 1919 proposed during the Paris Peace Conference after the first World War by the Commission of Responsibilities, which United State is part of this Organ. In 1937 Geneva Conference, under the auspicious of the League of Nation resulted in the first convention stipulating the establishment of a permanent International Court to try international terrorism and uphold the rule of law, which United State is the main associate of this intergovernmental Organization, President Woodrow Wilson of the United State won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in pivoting this League of Nation. In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly first recognize the need for a permanent International Court to deal with the atrocities after the World War II. At the request of the General Assembly, the International Law Commission was drafted by Benjamin Berell Ferencz, the Chief Prosecutor for the United State Army and also an investigator of the Nazi War Crimes , which later became an advocate of the international Criminal Court and International rule of Law with a German – born Professor , Robert Kurt Woetzel, both created the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 1971 supported by the United State Government to give justice to human right violation, misused of powers by some head of state and terrorism . Moving forward, the Rwanda genocide and the Yugoslav War in 1994 helps in creating the International tribular Court, which prosecute the war crimes leading the final establishment of the creation of the International Criminal Court back by the United Nation Security Council and General Assembly in 1998 and ratified by Member State in 2002. It imperative to narrate this historian fact as a reminder to the United State of America and president Donald J Trump not to sanctions the ICC and its Staff but to be diplomatic in resolving the issue in the ICC and uphold its dignity, while we acknowledged the ongoing reform initiated by the President Donald J. Trump around the World, he must not give rooms or an opportunity to some International terrorist Organization and some head of states that had committed or committing crime against the humanity and involve in illicit drug trafficking, in which the only court that can bring them to Justice is the International Criminal Court. The United State of America is the watchdog that keeps the ICC on his toes for wrongdoing whenever there is partiality in delivering judgement, backing out from ICC will leads to some Middle-east and African State actors and non-state actors to commit genocide, crimes of humanity, war crimes and aggression. Thank you for reading and hope the President Donald J. Trump will rescind his decision as soon as possible. Sincerely, Isa Idayat Technical Secretariat, CCACBWA LAGOS, https://www.facebook.com/ccacbwa.lagos?mibextid=ZbWKwL http://counteractcbw.blogspot.com/ reply to; ccacbwalagos@gmail.com