Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Mongolia on September 3. The country is under the jurisdiction of the ICC, which issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president in the spring of 2023.
Mongolian authorities have assured that they will ignore the warrant issued by the International Criminal Courtwrites Bloomberg.
During the visit, Putin will meet with President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. Mongolia will become the first country to recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. At the end of August 2023, the Russian president refused to attend the BRICS summit in South Africa, which is also a signatory country to the Rome Statute of the ICC. Instead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov went to Johannesburg, and the president himself spoke via video link.
On March 17, 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president, finding him responsible for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories to Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Moscow called the decision legally null and void, since in 2016 Russia has withdrawn from the ICC jurisdiction, writes Euronews.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on the Mongolian authorities to “implement the mandatory international arrest warrant and hand Putin over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.”
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the issue of the ICC warrant, said that the Kremlin has “no worries” since Russia and Mongolia have “an excellent dialogue” and all aspects of the visit “were carefully prepared.”
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