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Wednesday April 03, 2002 22:23
by pq
Ireland has not yet ratified the ICC treaty. Only four more ratifications are needed for the treaty to become international law.
Only four more countries need to "ratify" the Rome Treaty for a permanent International Criminal Court to become active. This would discourage the Bush II regime from carrying out war crimes in many of the 60 countries it has threatened. Ireland has not yet ratified:
http://web.amnesty.org/web/web.nsf/pages/signatures_ratifications