Vladimir Putin arrived in Mongolia. Photo: Natalia Gubernatorova, Moskovsky Komsomolets
Vladimir Putin was received with great honors in Mongolia, despite Western calls for Ulaanbaatar to… arrest him.
Putin's official visit with Mongolian leader Ukhnaa Khurelsukh is his first to an ICC member state since the warrant was issued almost 18 months ago for war crimes in Ukraine.
🇲🇳🇷🇺 International Criminal Court defied!
Mongolia is obliged to arrest Putin and extradite him to The Hague, since they're a member of the ICC.
But the Russian president is met at the Ulaanbaatar airport by an honor guard!
Then his motorcade left Ulaanbaatar airport calmly… pic.twitter.com/61YnABaSE3
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) September 2, 2024
International Criminal Court demanded from Mongolia arrest Putin and extradite him to The Hague, since he is a member of the ICC. But at the Ulaanbaatar airport, the Russian president was met by an honor guard, and then his motorcade left the Ulaanbaatar airport calmly and unhindered. The ICC turned out to be useless.
On Tuesday, Putin and the Mongolian leader will attend a ceremony marking the 1939 victory of Soviet and Mongolian troops over the Japanese army that seized control of Manchuria in northeastern China. Ukraine, in turn, called on Mongolia to arrest Putin and hand him over to court in The Hague.
A Kremlin spokesman said last week that Moscow was not concerned about Putin's visit to the country, noting that while members of the international court are obliged to detain suspects if an arrest warrant has been issued, the court has no enforcement mechanism.
Mongolia, for its part, is heavily dependent on Russia for fuel and electricity and on China for mining investment.
The main program of the visit will take place on September 3. Putin will hold talks with his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnagiin Khurelsukh, and will also meet with the Chairman of the Mongolian Parliament Dashzegviyin Amarbayasgalan and the country's Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene.
The talks with Khurelsukh will be held in narrow and expanded formats. They will discuss promising areas of cooperation between the two countries, including cooperation in industry, agriculture, energy, transport, including rail communications, as well as international and regional issues. Special attention will be paid to issues of education and expansion of teaching in Russian, as well as the education of Mongolian youth in Russian universities.
After the talks, Putin and Khurelsukh will attend the signing ceremony of Russian-Mongolian intergovernmental and interdepartmental documents, and then make statements to the media. In addition, the presidents of the two states will lay flowers at the monument to Marshal Zhukov and visit the school at the Ulaanbaatar branch of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, reports Interfax.
P.S. After that The ICC has disgraced itself with the demand for the extradition of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant, many countries around the world have changed their attitude towards this organization.
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