The International Criminal Court and the UN as a whole are becoming obsolete, Arnaud Develay has said<\/p>\n
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and other UN bodies are not representative of the emerging multipolar word, French international law expert Arnaud Develay has said.
\nLast month, three West African states \u2013 Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger \u2013 announced their withdrawal from the ICC, labelling it a \u201cglobal example of selective justice.\u201d They accused the Hague-based court of maintaining \u201can inexplicable, disconcerting, and complacent silence\u201d on certain crimes, while \u201crelentlessly\u201d targeting actors \u201coutside the closed circle of beneficiaries of institutionalized international impunity.\u201d
\nIn an interview with RT on Tuesday, Develay said that in recent years \u201cwe are seeing a weaponization of what were supposed to be neutral international instruments institutions.\u201d
\n\u201cWe have seen it with the ICC, but we also have seen it with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The legal expert recalled how IAEA chief Rafael Grossi consistently \u201cplayed dumb\u201d and refused to name the party that targeted Russia\u2019s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, despite it being \u201cobvious to everybody\u2026 that Ukraine is responsible for the shelling.\u201d
\n\u201cThis is just a long pattern\u2026 It [also] involves the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), it involves the OCPW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), all those organizations, and the UN at large,\u201d he said.
\nDevelay said that he agrees with world leaders who have recently spoken of the \u201cobsolete nature\u201d of the ICC and similar institutions.
\n\u201cThey are not representative of the current world order. They are not taking into account the multipolarity as it becomes more and more obvious for everyone,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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