Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Mongolia next week despite Mongolia’s membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for him last year.
The trip, scheduled for September 3, is Putin’s first visit to a member state of the International Criminal Court since the Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for the president in March 2023 for Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that there were no concerns about the trip, Russian state news agency RYANVOSTI reported.
This trip is done at the invitation of Okhnagin Khorlesukh, the President of Mongolia. Peskov said: We had and are having a wonderful dialogue with our friends from Mongolia
According to the Rome Statute of the Court’s founding treaty, the members of the International Criminal Court are obliged to prosecute suspects who
Arrest has been issued for them, if they step on their territory, they will be arrested, while the court does not have an enforcement mechanism.
However, Ukraine has asked Mongolia to arrest Vladimir Putin.
