The Bush administration had been seeking bilateral non-surrender agreements, targeting many countries, including allies of the US government, those seeking membership in NATO, and those in the Middle East, the Caribbean and South Asia
The decision, published by the White House, read that due to US national interests the ban, imposed on the Roman Statute member countries, was being lifted.
Following the decision, Croatia, Serbia, Malta, Kenya, Tanzania, Mali, Namibia, Niger and South African Republic, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Barbados, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Samoa will be able to train their military personnel in US military academies and receive other forms of assistance from the IMET.
US discontinued its military assistance to Croatia in mid 2003.