05/14/1998
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"Signature will enhance our ability to further protect U.S. officials from unfounded charges and to achieve the human rights and accountability objectives of the ICC."
"Our action today sustains that tradition of moral leadership."
"We do so to reaffirm our strong support for international accountability and for bringing to justice perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity."
"The United States is today signing the 1998 Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court."