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Russian chief Vladimir Putin is poised to fulfill with Mongolia’s president and different senior officers regardless of requires his arrest beneath a warrant from the International Criminal Court associated to alleged battle crimes.
Putin will meet President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa on Tuesday after arriving Monday evening within the nation sandwiched between Russia and China. The two will focus on “problems with relations and cooperation,” the Mongolian authorities mentioned with out elaborating.
The go to is the primary by Putin to a member state of the ICC because the warrant was issued final yr over the kidnapping of kids from occupied areas of Ukraine. As a signatory to the Rome Statute governing the courtroom, Mongolia is obliged to implement the warrant and arrest Putin if he seems on its territory.
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Putin hasn’t risked related travels earlier than. He skipped final yr’s summit in South Africa of leaders from the BRICS grouping after the host made clear it must adjust to the ICC warrant as a member state.
Putin obtained assurances forward of the journey to Mongolia that he gained’t be arrested, Bloomberg News reported earlier, citing two individuals conversant in the Kremlin’s preparations for his travels.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned in a press release that Mongolia ought to “execute the binding worldwide arrest warrant and switch Putin to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.”
A spokesman for the ICC mentioned earlier that events “to the ICC Rome Statute have the duty to cooperate” with courtroom selections, “together with in relation to arrest warrants.” In the case of non-cooperation, an ICC judge could inform the courtroom’s oversight and legislative physique, which might “take any measure it deems acceptable.”
Putin’s go to comes solely six months after the primary Mongolian judge to serve on the ICC took up his submit. Khurelsukh hailed the event on the time.
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A spokesperson from the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar mentioned earlier that Putin shouldn’t be given a platform to advertise aggression in opposition to Ukraine.
Neither Russia nor the U.S. are members of the ICC, which has 124 member states.
Russia goals to construct a brand new fuel pipeline, Power of Siberia 2, by way of Mongolia to China. Russia could provide fuel to Mongolia as a part of the endeavor, Putin mentioned in an interview with Mongolia’s Unuudur newspaper.
