On his way to the United States on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plane was tracked crossing French airspace despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued against him. France, which is a party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, defended its decision to permit the Israeli government aircraft to pass through its airspace.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux said the authorization was "in full conformity with international law," explaining that France does not consider the Rome Statute to require action against a person named in an ICC warrant merely because the state aircraft carrying that person flies through French airspace.