Venezuela will withdraw from the International Criminal Court over the tribunal's perceived bias, the nation's foreign minister said Friday. The announcement comes amid an ongoing ICC investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed under ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's government. "Withdrawal does not affect any pre-existing cooperation obligations arising from criminal investigations or proceedings that had commenced" previously, it added. The ICC is currently probing alleged crimes against humanity committed during crackdowns on protestors in Venezuela since 2014. Neither the US nor Israel is a party to the ICC, which tries individuals for the world's worst crimes including war crimes and crimes against humanity.