Russia reacts to International Criminal Court warrants, calls it ‘outrageous and unacceptable’

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that any determination by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is null and void for the Russian Federation.

Moscow,UPDATED: Mar 17, 2023 23:52 IST

A Russian flag with coat of arms is seen subsequent to Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. (Image: Reuters)

By Reuters: The Kremlin stated on Friday that an arrest warrant for warfare crimes issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague towards Russian President Vladimir Putin was outrageous, however meaningless with respect to Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Russia discovered the very questions raised by the ICC “outrageous and unacceptable”, however famous that Russia, like many different international locations, didn’t recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC.

“And accordingly, any decisions of this kind are null and void for the Russian Federation from the point of view of law.”

Asked if Putin now feared travelling to international locations that recognised the ICC and would possibly due to this fact attempt to arrest him, Peskov instructed reporters: “I have nothing to add on this subject. That’s all we want to say.”

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Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian commissioner for kids’s rights, was like Putin accused by the ICC of the warfare crime of unlawful deportation of kids from Ukraine.

“It’s great that the international community has appreciated this work to help the children of our country: that we don’t leave them in war zones, that we take them out, that we create good conditions for them, that we surround them with loving, caring people,” she instructed journalists, in response to the state-run RIA information company.

Russia signed the Rome Statute in 2000, however by no means ratified it to grow to be a member of the ICC, and at last withdrew its signature in 2016.

At the time, Russia was underneath worldwide stress over its seizure and unilateral annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in addition to a marketing campaign of air strikes in Syria in help of President Bashar al-Assad’s warfare towards rebels.

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Mar 17, 2023