{"id":117160,"date":"2021-04-04T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T03:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117160"},"modified":"2021-04-04T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T03:51:40","slug":"un-chief-welcomes-revocation-of-us-sanctions-against-icc-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117160","title":{"rendered":"UN chief welcomes revocation of US sanctions against ICC officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/photo-cdn.urdupoint.com\/media\/2021\/04\/_3\/730x425\/pic_1617478122.jpg\" alt=\"UN chief welcomes US move to lift sanctions on International Criminal Court officials\n\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 4 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the revocation by the United States of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order on sanctions against senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ICC plays an important role in advancing accountability for international crimes. The secretary-general affirms the continued cooperation of the United Nations under the Relationship Agreement between the United Nations and the ICC, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for Guterres, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new US administration led by President Joe Biden on Friday revoked Trump&#8217;s executive order of June 11, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ICC, established in 2002, prosecutes crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 4 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the revocation by the United States of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order on sanctions against senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC plays an important role in advancing accountability for international crimes. The secretary-general affirms the continued cooperation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}