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State Department Lists Countries Who Have Signed Article 98 Agreements

(From June 12 State Department briefing) (320)
Following is the official answer to a question taken at the June 12
regular State Department briefing:
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
Office of the Spokesman 
June 12, 2003 
Question Taken at June 12, 2003 Daily Press Briefing
COUNTRIES WHO HAVE SIGNED ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENTS WITH THE UNITED STATES
Question: Is there a secret list of countries who have signed Article
98 agreements with the United States and what countries have signed
the agreement?
Answer: A total of 38 countries have publicly announced that they have
concluded Article 98 or Non-Surrender Agreements with the United
States.
The countries are: Uganda, Romania, Israel, East Timor, the Marshall
Islands, Tajikistan, Palau, Mauritania, the Dominican Republic,
Uzbekistan, Honduras, Micronesia, Afghanistan, the Gambia, El
Salvador, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Djibouti, Tuvalu, Bahrain, Georgia,
Nauru, Azerbaijan, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Tonga, Sierra Leone, the Maldives, Gabon, Ghana, Madagascar, Albania,
Bhutan, Philippines, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bolivia, and Thailand.
Several other countries have signed agreements but have asked us not
to identify them as signers. We are respecting their wishes.
We will continue our efforts to conclude these agreements with as many
countries as possible. We seek to protect American citizens and
non-U.S. citizens serving in the U.S. Armed Forces from the potential
danger of being tried by a court that lacks sufficient safeguards
against politically motivated prosecutions and was established outside
the UN system by a treaty to which we are not a party.
The United States remains committed to justice, the practice of the
rule of law, and full accountability for war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and genocide. As a sovereign nation, the United States
accepts the responsibility to investigate and prosecute its own
citizens for such offenses should they occur.
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(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)