 The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution to prosecute Sudanese war crimes suspects before the International Criminal Court, after the United States reversed policy and agreed not to veto the document. The United States, which abstained with three other countries, won significant concessions, including ironclad guarantees it sought that Americans working in Sudan would not be handed over to either the ICC or any other nation's courts if they committed crimes in Sudan. With U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan looking on, the council voted 11-0. Algeria, Brazil and China also abstained. Acting U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson said the United States still "fundamentally objects" to the court but was determined to get something done on Sudan. |