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US Threatens UN Peacekeeping Over New Court

Evelyn Leopold | Reuters | June 18, 2002

"A U.S. official said if American personnel were not protected there would 'no longer be U.S. peacekeepers.' No one in the 15-member council agreed with the American stance on the court, the world's first permanent tribunal to try the most heinous crimes ó genocide, war crimes and systematic, gross human rights abuses."

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