Russia's Putin to visit ICC member Mongolia despite arrest warrant

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/30/russias-putin-to-visit-icc-member-mongolia-despite-arrest-warrant

Russia’s Putin to visit ICC member Mongolia despite arrest warrant

Trip would be Russian president’s first to a member of International Criminal Court since warrant over ‘war crimes’.

30 Aug 2024

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The visit, scheduled for September 3, will be Putin’s first trip to an ICC member state since The Hague-based court issued the arrest warrant in March 2023 accusing the president of the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and Russian-controlled territory.

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The visit is taking place on the invitation of Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh. “We have a wonderful dialogue with our friends from Mongolia,” Peskov said.

Under the Rome Statute, the court’s founding treaty, ICC members are bound to detain suspects for whom an arrest warrant has been issued if they set foot on their soil. However, the court does not have any enforcement mechanism.

The ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin was its first against a leader of one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.


SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

[Irish_Dem]

1. Putin knows no one will touch him.

Like Trump and other fascist leaders.

[captain queeg]

2. Just makes me think of when I was in Afghanistan. Based in the green zone.

I was a civilian employee of the army. We’d go across the street to Camp Eggers, a US army base because they had a PX and a pizza place. We were eating and a group of soldiers came in. They looked totally badass with fierce expressions. We all wondered who they were. Turned out they were Mongolian troops which surprised me. Didn’t realize they were helping out. Anyways I got the feeling they were people you didn’t want to fuck with.

[2naSalit]

3. If only.