Mongolian officials "have the obligation" to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits the country next week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) says
Mongolian officials "have the obligation" to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits the country next week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) says
Moscow says it has "no worries" about the visit, which is expected to happen next week.
The trip, expected to happen on Tuesday [4 Sep], will be the first time the Russian leader has visited an ICC member nation since the court ordered his arrest in March 2023.
The court alleges Mr Putin is responsible for war crimes, saying he failed to stop the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia since the conflict began.
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Dr Fadi el-Abdallah, a spokesperson for the ICC, [...] said Mongolia, like other ICC signatories, has the "obligation to cooperate". This includes complying with arrest warrants such as the one the court issued for Mr Putin's arrest in 2023.
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Last year, Mr Putin cancelled a visit to a summit in South Africa following the ICC warrant for his arrest.
I would be impressed if they risk it. Literally half of Mongolia's population resides in their capital city Ulaanbaatar. If a country bordering Russia were to arrest the sitting Russian president and turn him over to Copenhagen then there's a non-zero possibility of a retaliatory airstrike on the capital, destroying their only major city and killing a significant percentage of the entire country's population.
On the other hand, the power vacuum his absence would cause could result in a Gorbachev-type taking lead.
Or a Stalin....
Has any world leader like Putin ever been arrested while visiting another country before?
Napoleon was held in British custody.
That's true. I wonder if anyone has been in the current modern era. After horses.
Why do the ICC not condemn Israel due to war crimes as well?
ICC's Karim Khan announces arrest warrant application for Israeli and Hamas leaders
[Regarding Israel, the arrest warrants so far go against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.]
Good to know
It took a full blown genocide to kick off but they finally start acting like they got a working dick of the law.