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Holger Hestermeyer Profile picture
@hhesterm
Aug 16, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This report is factually entirely wrong. The FCO has been doing this for years. With some excellent trade experts. Want to give credit to a government for it? It’s due to the May government.
I have tweeted this correction out some hours ago, but it was an angry tweet, because the civil servants deserve credit - they haven’t dragged their feet on this one at all. And I don’t like my angry tweets.
There’s a thread to be done about the weird tendency of journalistic stories to pretend that everything is different with a new government. ‘For the first time the U.K. promotes its trade’. That’s entirely wrong, of course.
But I’ll have to do that another day...
Just note the irony of crediting Boris Johnson, PM with everything, after accusing the FCO in particular of dragging its feet. The FCO which was headed by one *looks at FCO chart* “Boris Johnson”.

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The German statement on the ICC is out. And it supports the ICC. /1
"The ICC is a basic achievement of the international community that Germany always supported. Germany respects its independence and its procedures as those of other international courts. /2
Part of that is that that the pretrial chamber now has to decide on the applications of the chief prosecutor. /3
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I know some will brush off @RishiSunak 's comments on the ECtHR and the ECHR as irrelevant given that his days in office are almost over. They are not. They are dangerous for the UK and show some politicians have not learned a thing. Why? /1
First: Once again a UK leader makes a commitment to leave an international system to limit immigration without any regard to the impact of leaving. That impact? /2
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Sorry to emphasize this again, but please note the "direct and public incitement to commit genocide" aspect of the case, which weirdly is often left out of commentary on the ICJ case. It is incredibly important. /1
South Africa submitted numerous statements that show that a cavalier attitude has developed to say truly horrendous things. Now that does not equal showing a state policy of genocide. But it is deeply troubling. And the court decided to remind Israel of what needs to be done /2
And the order of the Court in this regard is all the more stronger by who voted for it: Also Israel's ad hoc judge Barak, the former President of Israel's Supreme Court. /3 Image
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Jan 19
Germany demonstrating against the extreme right: Cologne /1
Hamburg /2
Berlin /3
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Dec 31, 2023
Some thoughts on the South Africa-Israel case before the ICJ, as I am unhappy with some comments. I’ll try to keep this untechnical. /1
1) South Africa files the case as a state party to the genocide convention against Israel as another state party alleging violations of the convention. This is permissible, as every state party is held to have an interest in upholding the convention.
2) This is not the first time that this has happened. The Gambia has filed a case concerning genocide against Myanmar. If you are interested… icj-cij.org/case/178
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