迈克·科尔德 海牙，荷兰——德国外交部长约翰·瓦德富尔周一访问了国际刑事法院，高调展示对这家陷入困境的全球法庭的支持。美国总统唐纳德·特朗普称该法庭为“流氓机构”。
MIKE CORDER THE HAGUE, Netherlands — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul visited the International Criminal Court on Monday in a high-profile show of support for the embattled global tribunal that U.S. President Donald Trump calls a “rogue institution.”
特朗普政府已对该法院的13名工作人员实施制裁，其中包括关键检察官和九名法官，包括法院的日本籍院长赤根智子。美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥发起了他所谓的“全面行动，以瓦解国际刑事法院构成的威胁”。
The Trump administration already has slapped sanctions on 13 of the court’s staff members, among them key prosecutors and nine judges including the court’s Japanese President Tomoko Akane. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched what he called a “sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court.”
“德国政府完全支持该法院，”瓦德富尔在海牙访问前不久表示，并补充说柏林正寻求“使法院能够运作”。了解相关简报的外交和政府官员上周告诉美联社，法院所在国荷兰的官员已被告知，对整个法院的制裁即将到来，他们正在研究帮助法庭继续运作的方法，包括支付工作人员薪资、保护证人和维持拘留设施。这些官员因未获授权公开发言而要求匿名。
“The German government completely supports the court,” Wadephul said in The Hague shortly before his visit, adding that Berlin is seeking to “enable the court to be workable.”Officials in the court’s host country, the Netherlands, have been warned that sanctions on the entire court are imminent and are looking at ways to help the tribunal keep operating, including paying staff, protecting witnesses and maintaining the detention facility, diplomatic and government officials with knowledge of the briefings told The Associated Press last week. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
制裁可能使法院无法获得金融和IT服务，甚至无法支付其美国雇员的薪资。当法院前首席检察官于2025年受到制裁时，他失去了微软电子邮件的访问权限，银行账户被冻结，并被禁止进入美国。
Sanctions could prevent the court from accessing financial and IT services, and even paying its U.S. employees. When the court’s former chief prosecutor was sanctioned in 2025 , he lost access to his Microsoft email, his bank accounts were frozen and he was barred from entering the United States.
周一早些时候，瓦德富尔表示柏林正在“与其他国家合作，维护其运作能力”。该法院目前有125个成员国。
Earlier on Monday, Wadephul said Berlin is “working together with other states on preserving its ability to function.”The court currently has 125 member states.
缓解制裁的一个可能措施是欧盟的“阻断法规”，可用于保护欧洲法院工作人员，阻止欧洲公司遵守美国措施。
One possible measure to mitigate sanctions is the EU “blocking statute,” which could be used to protect European court staff by preventing European companies from complying with the U.S. measures.
然而，目前尚不清楚该法规是否能保护国际刑事法院本身，因为它是一个国际机构，而非欧洲机构。欧盟公民有权获得基本银行账户，但这并不提供信用卡或美国支付设施的访问权限。
It’s unclear, however, whether the statute would shield the ICC itself, because it’s an international body, not a European one. EU citizens are entitled to a basic bank account, but that doesn’t provide access to credit cards or U.S. payment facilities.
荷兰外交大臣汤姆·贝伦森将这一阻断法规称为应对可能制裁的“核选项”，但表示荷兰一直在与欧盟委员会进行谈判，以确保在必要时能够迅速颁布。
Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen called the blocking statute the “nuclear option” in countering possible sanctions, but said the Netherlands has been in talks with the European Commission to ensure that if it is necessary it can be quickly enacted.
“我们已经准备好了，委员会也已经准备好了，”他在与瓦德富尔共同举行的新闻发布会上对记者说。贝伦森表示，他也在与美国进行谈判，试图阻止可能进一步实施的制裁。
“We are ready for that, the commission is ready for that,” he told reporters at a news conference with Wadephul. Berendsen said he also is in talks with the United States in an attempt to head off possible further sanctions.
在上周向联合国大会发表的讲话中，特朗普呼吁国际刑事法院成员国退出该法院。几天后，荷兰首相罗布·耶滕利用同一个讲台为该法院进行了有力辩护，他对联合国大会说：“我认为只能有一个回应。那就是：不要碰国际刑事法院，以及所有其他保护国际法律秩序的机构。”国际刑事法院于2002年在海牙成立，作为最后诉诸的法院，负责起诉对世界上最恶劣暴行负有责任的个人：战争罪、危害人类罪、种族灭绝罪和侵略罪。当各国无法或不愿在其领土上起诉犯罪时，该法院会受理相关案件。
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, Trump called on ICC member states to quit the court. Days later, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten used the same podium to forcefully defend the court, telling the General Assembly: “I believe there can be only one response. To say: hands off the ICC, and all those other institutions that protect the international legal order.”The ICC was established in The Hague in 2002 as a court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for the world’s most heinous atrocities: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression. It takes on cases when nations are unable or unwilling to prosecute crimes on their territory.
美国和以色列强烈反对该法院对以色列高级官员发出的逮捕令，包括总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡，理由是加沙战争。美国也反对对其在阿富汗军事行动的调查。
The U.S. and Israel strongly object to the court’s arrest warrants for top Israeli officials , including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the war in Gaza. The U.S. also has opposed investigations into its military actions in Afghanistan.
与俄罗斯、中国、印度和以色列一样，美国是从未加入该法院的国家之一，华盛顿方面称其担心其军方遭到出于政治动机的起诉。瓦德富尔表示，德国是国际刑事法院有原则的支持者。
Like Russia, China, India and Israel, the United States is among countries that have never joined the panel, with Washington citing fears of politically motivated prosecutions of its military. Wadephul said Germany was a principled supporter of the ICC.
“德国从自身历史中深知，当国家权力践踏法律和人道时，会走向何方。因此，支持国际刑事法院对德国来说不单纯是一个外交政策问题。这也是我们历史责任的一部分，”他在周一启程前往海牙时表示。
“Germany knows from its own history where it leads when state power flouts the law and humanity. So supporting the ICC is not a purely foreign policy question for Germany. It is also part of our historic responsibility,” he said Monday as he set off for The Hague.