Mexico joins International Criminal Court

[Judi Lynn]

Oct. 29, 2005, 10:16PM

Mexico joins International Criminal Court
Treaty is ratified despite the refusal by the U.S. to join
By EVELYN LEOPOLD
Reuters News Service

UNITED NATIONS - Mexico became the 100th nation Friday to ratify the 1998 treaty creating the International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent tribunal to try individuals for heinous crimes.

Mexico's deputy U.N. ambassador, Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, and the country's foreign ministry legal adviser, Joel Hernandez, deposited ratification documents approved by the government and Parliament, the United Nations announced.

The court was set up to prosecute individuals accused of the world's worst atrocities — genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity — to fulfill the promise of the Nuremberg trials, which tried Nazi leaders after World War II.
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The United States opposes the court but earlier this year permitted the U.N. Security Council to refer to the tribunal cases of mass human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region. Washington abstained rather than use its veto power.
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