On September 14, Germany said it would sue the United...

On September 14, Germany said it would sue the United States in the World Court in The Hague for violating international laws and treaties by executing the LaGrand brothers. Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin said: "Our aim is to get a guarantee from the United States that they will respect international laws and the decisions of the World Court in the future. It cannot be allowed to happen again that the Vienna Convention and decisions of the World Court can simply be ignored. I am not oblivious to the problem that the government in Washington has with (control over) the individual states." Offering rare open criticism from the German government of the United States, she added, "The United States represents its interests so robustly and directly, even on issues of far less importance. Respecting international laws cannot be a one-way street."