Mexican courts won't prosecute non-Mexicans for crimes in space.

American courts won't prosecute at all without trials and witnesses.

"The court will prosecute in situations where the country concerned is either unable or unwilling to prosecute," he said.

I want the government to acknowledge what happened and let the courts prosecute those people who were responsible.

The court would prosecute international crimes when national legal systems are unwilling or unable to do so.

But the courts would never prosecute me for that.

Furthermore, the new court can prosecute crimes committed only after it came into existence - on July 1, 2002.

The idea, of course, is that the court should only prosecute if the country concerned does not do so itself.

United States officials this week repeated that American courts would prosecute anyone involved in a hijacking.