http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29563413.htmUNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The United States for weeks blocked a U.N. statement supporting an investigation into a massacre in Burundi because of Washington's disdain for the International Criminal Court, diplomats said on Monday.
The Security Council statement, initially drafted by France in mid-November and now transformed into a resolution, is finally expected to come to a vote on Tuesday after the United States agreed to a compromise, the diplomats said.
Based in The Hague in the Netherlands, the court is the first permanent world tribunal set up to prosecute individuals for war crimes, genocide and other gross human rights abuses.
It came into being last year and 97 countries have ratified the 1998 statute creating the tribunal. Of the 25 European Union nations, only the Czech Republic has not submitted its ratification papers.
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