France, July 28 -- The statement issued by the Chadian government spokesperson on Monday reads that Chad has notified the UN Secretariat of "its sovereign decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court (ICC)."

Chad's decision follows "an in-depth review of the functioning of the International Criminal Court since it began operating in 2002, as well as its record whose effectiveness remains limited and uneven", a government spokesman said in a statement.

It is also pointing to the Court's "judicial activity focused on the Global South in general and the African continent in particular, which have become the willing victims of the ICC's political instrumentalisation."

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