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Security & Strategic Review - October 2006
PARAGUAY-REGION: Asunción ends immunity as Bush grants broad waiver
Almost inevitably, what made the headlines in early October was that the government of Paraguay had decided to withdraw - from next year - the immunity it had granted US military personnel engaged in a series of exercises which, at their outset, had triggered a wave of rumours about purported US plans to install a military base in that country. Much less attention was given to the news that President George Bush had granted a partial sanctions waiver to 21 countries that had refused to grant immunity from surrender to the International Criminal Court
(ICC).
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