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Now Italy is considering signing a bilateral agreement to exempt US troops from ICC prosecution. The UK, too.
"We are not going to reach a British position until we know the European one, if there is one," the spokesman said on the sidelines of an EU foreign ministers' meeting in the Danish seaside resort of Elsinore. "But these kinds of agreements are not incompatible with the ICC treaty."
Diplomats said Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had indicated to Italian reporters on Friday night that Rome was prepared to clinch a deal with Washington, following the controversial examples of Romania, Israel and East Timor.
"He (Berlusconi) is convinced there is a problem for the United States and no one can ignore that it is a real problem," an Italian diplomat said.
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