{"id":9923,"date":"2021-04-16T06:39:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2021-04-16T06:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:39:35","slug":"pm-uk-politicizes-independent-investigation-of-international-criminal-court-into-palestine-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pm-uk-politicizes-independent-investigation-of-international-criminal-court-into-palestine-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"PM UK Politicizes Independent Investigation of International Criminal Court into Palestine Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9924\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Palestine-UK-Israel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Palestine-UK-Israel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Palestine-UK-Israel-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Ramallah; 16 April 2021 &#8211; The State of Palestine in a statement has expressed concerns on\u00a0 the letter by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to the \u201cConservative Friends of Israel\u201d objecting to the International Criminal Court\u2019s independent investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>The statement reads as &#8221; The letter of #UK Prime Minister politicizes an independent investigation of the Court, risks the integrity and impartiality of the British nationals serving at the highest positions in the Court, and undermines the pursuit of international justice and the Court\u2019s mandate.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>As a State Party to the Rome Statute, the #United Kingdom is obligated to respect and safeguard the judicial and prosecutorial independence of the Court, including the ongoing investigation into Israeli crimes in the State of #Palestine. In this regard, the State of Palestine finds it difficult to reconcile the misplaced promises made by the Prime Minister in the statement to \u201creform\u201d or \u201cstrengthen\u201d the Court with his Government\u2019s attempts to undermine and intervene the Court\u2019s work. In fact, this letter reveals the Prime Minister\u2019s outright contempt for the Court, the international order, rules, principles, and values.<\/h3>\n<h3>The State of Palestine is equally concerned with the Prime Minister\u2019s reference to the British nationals serving at the Court as a political win for the United Kingdom and its allies. This unprecedented political reference is a grave threat to the independence and impartiality of the Court and intended to divert the Court from investigating British nationals and its allies. The State of Palestine recalls that Judges and the Prosecutor are independent and must be able to pursue justice and fulfill their mandate in accordance with the #Rome Statute without undue pressure from States.<\/h3>\n<h3>Attempts to undermine Palestinian statehood or the Palestinian people\u2019s inalienable right to self-determination are objectionable remaining vestiges of colonialism. The State of Palestine is a legal and a political fact that can neither be ignored nor denied any longer. This is particularly true when it comes to the United Kingdom and its historical responsibility towards the Question of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Governments that remain in denial on this issue are advised to move over to right side of history.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramallah; 16 April 2021 &#8211; The State of Palestine in a statement has expressed concerns on\u00a0 the letter by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to the \u201cConservative Friends of Israel\u201d objecting to the International Criminal Court\u2019s independent investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine. The statement reads as &#8221; The letter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,24],"tags":[715,285,154,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions\/9925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}