09/03/2024
Putin Travels to Mongolia
His actions defied an international court arrest order
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first visit to a member state of the International Criminal Court since he was indicted on a charge of war crimes last year but faces little threat of arrest in Mongolia.
Signatories to the Rome Statute setting up the court are obligated to detain individuals for whom the court has issued arrest warrants. The court indicted Putin and his human rights commissioner for children, Maria Lvova-Belova, for war crimes in March 2023 after Russia removed thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia.
Putin canceled a visit to an August 2023 BRICS summit in Johannesburg after a South African court affirmed the government’s duty to arrest Putin if he visited.
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