Leading funders of the International Criminal Court will reject calls from Israel to cut funding officials told Reuters.
The second largest donor of the ICC, German government said it “couldn’t imagine” cutting funding.
Officials from France, Britain and Italy, told Reuters that their governments, who are the third, fourth and fifth largest funders of the ICC, would not change policy.
Following the ICC’s decision to examine crimes that may have occurred since last June in Palestinian territories, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigfor Lieberman said the country was lobbying states to cut funding to the organisation.
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