Annan Against U.S. Peacekeeper Immunity

It's way past time for the US to pull out of the UN. Perhaps the UN could move to Belgium.

Despite intensive lobbying, council diplomats said Washington does not have the minimum nine votes of support on the 15-member council to approve the resolution, which would renew American immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court for a third year.


France, Germany, Spain, Brazil and Chile already said they would abstain on a new exemption, and Romania and Benin indicated they were likely to join them, council diplomats said.

Annan Against U.S. Peacekeeper Immunity