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      "title": "The International Criminal Court Treaty: Description, Policy Issues, and Congressional Concerns",
      "summary": "The United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an\nInternational Criminal Court (ICC) concluded five weeks of negotiations on July 17, 1998 in Rome,\nItaly, by adopting an agreement to establish a permanent international criminal court. Of the more\nthan 160 nations that participated in the Rome Conference, 120 nations voted to adopt the Rome\nStatute of the International Criminal Court, 7 nations voted against it, while 21 nations abstained. \nThe United States rejected the final document primarily because of the broad jurisdictional powers\ngranted to the Court.\n The Court's powers would include the authority to prosecute people from countries that do not\nsign and ratify the ICC Treaty. As a result, U.S. military personnel stationed on foreign soil might\nbe subject to investigations and prosecutions by the ICC even if the United States does not become\na party to the ICC Treaty. Due to the fact that the global deployment of U.S. military personnel\nexceeds any other country, U.S. officials are apprehensive over whether American armed forces may\nbe likely candidates for frivolous or politically motivated referrals. \n Advocates of the ICC Treaty assert that sufficient safeguards exist to limit the Court's\njurisdiction. Notwithstanding this assertion, the Clinton Administration is not prepared to sign the\nICC Treaty in its current form. Ultimately, the Administration will have to determine what role, if\nany, the United States should assume concerning its relationship to the ICC Treaty and the Court. \nEven though the Administration has not submitted the ICC Treaty to the U.S. Senate for its advice\nand consent, several members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have expressed their\nstrong opposition to it. Any subsequent consideration of the ICC Treaty is unlikely unless corrective\nmeasures are taken to amend the Court's jurisdictional powers. \n Before the ICC can begin operating, 60 nations must become parties to the treaty through\nformal ratification or accession procedures - a process that may take years.",
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