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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
US pulling out of part of Vienna treaty to stymie Palestinian legal action
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS national security adviser John Bolton says Washington is withdrawing from an amendment to the Vienna Convention in order to keep the Palestinians from suing them in the Hague.
The decision “is in connection with a case brought by the so-called state of Palestine naming the US as a defendant challenging the move of our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” he says at a White House press conference
He says the US will remain party to the underlying Vienna treaty.
He also says the US will review all international agreements that could still expose the US to ICJ resolutions.
“The US will not sit idly by as baseless politicized claims are brought against us,” he says.
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