Significance of Biden lifting Trump-imposed sanctions on ICC officials


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The Biden administration announced another important shift from the policies of former President Donald Trump on Friday, lifting the sanctions and visa bans that had been placed on officials of the Hague-based International Criminal Court. The US under Trump had gone after ICC officials involved in investigations into possible war crimes by US troops or those of its allies, with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling the over 120 nations-strong tribunal a “kangaroo court”. The Biden White House has now reversed those measures, in what experts believe to be part of efforts to bring Washington back to the multilateral fold....