As he noted in an interview with El Pais, these restrictions are a “form of coercion.”
“I have to say that I am deeply sorry for these coercive measures, because the United States calls it sanctions, but the terminology is very important here: they are a form of coercion,” he said.
According to him, the threat to impose sanctions against the court is "something unprecedented."
The ICC President also added that previously such threats had already been voiced by Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, John Bolton.
“Then we told them that the criminal court is independent,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that Trump signed a decree authorizing the imposition of sanctions against members of the International Criminal Court, which decided to investigate alleged war crimes of Americans in Afghanistan.
The United Nations appreciated the US decree on sanctions against the ICC.