T&T under fire for ICC vote abstention

An­a­lysts and po­lit­i­cal ob­servers are ex­press­ing con­cern over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion to ab­stain from vot­ing on a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court.

Some are ques­tion­ing what this coun­try stands to gain from the move, while oth­ers be­lieve the ab­sten­tion is the first step to­wards ful­ly sup­port­ing Wash­ing­ton’s stance to dis­man­tle the court.

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On Mon­day, T&T ab­stained when the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly con­sid­ered res­o­lu­tion A/81/L.11, which wel­comed the ICC’s an­nu­al re­port cov­er­ing its ac­tiv­i­ties from Au­gust 1, 2025, to Ju­ly 31, 2026. The an­nu­al re­port of the ICC to the Unit­ed Na­tions doc­u­ments its ac­tiv­i­ties and cov­ers on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions, tri­als, and ap­peals across mul­ti­ple sit­u­a­tions.