The UNHCR has today asked the US to “revoke” the sanctions announced by Donald Trump against the International Criminal Court (ICC, ICC).

“We are deeply regretted by the individual sanctions announced yesterday at the expense of the Court of Justice and we ask” the United States “to recall this measure,” said High Commissioner Ravina Samdasani.

“We fully support the court’s independent work,” the spokesman said, according to which the ICC “should be fully able to conduct his independent work – when a state does not want or cannot honestly conduct an investigation or to conduct an investigation or to conduct an investigation or Exercise persecutions, as provided by the Statute of Rome. “

“The court is an essential element of human rights infrastructure,” he added.

In addition, in Berlin, a foreign ministry spokesman said Germany would continue to support the International Criminal Court, though it is not clear what the sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump will mean.

“I will not completely be surprised if some states are announcing together again during the New York day in New York their support,” the spokesman added.

The German Chancellor Allaf Saltz said, for his part, that Trump is making a mistake imposing penalties on the ICC because he endangers an important institution.

“Sanctions are the wrong tool. They endanger an institution that ensures that the dictators of this world cannot simply prosecute people and start wars and this is very important, “Saltz said in a speech he spoke to Ludwigsburg during his campaign campaign in the face of German parliamentarians. election.