Good News

This is certainly good news:

The United States was expected to allow the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to refer war crimes suspects in Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, diplomats said.

They said the United States would abstain, rather than use its veto power to kill the resolution that would ask the ICC to investigate those responsible for pillage, rape and slaughter in Darfur.

British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry told reporters he was confident the measure, drawn up by France, would be adopted by the 15-member council. And a French official told reporters: "There is a deal. There will not be a U.S. veto."

Regardless of how one feels about this, it's certainly better than a veto.