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Tue 07 Jul 2002US seeks to stay immune for good at ICCThe United States is seeking bilateral agreements with European governments that would prevent US soldiers ever being prosecuted at the new International Criminal Court (ICC).Europe agreed a compromise with Washington earlier this month granting immunity for one year to US soldiers to break the deadlock surrounding the new court that threatened the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.