The opinion of the 27 members of the EU on Putin’s arrest warrant has not advanced due to the Hungarian boycott, Bloomberg reported. Alternatively, the head of diplomacy issued a statement on his behalf.
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Hungary has blocked the initiative of the member states of the European Union (EU) to publish a joint statement on the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The information was advanced to Bloomberg by two sources close to the subject.
With the blockade of Hungary, the head of EU diplomacy, Joseph Borrell, published a statement on its behalf. “The European Union sees the ICC ruling as the beginning of an accountability process of the Russian leadership for the crimes and atrocities that they order, allow or commit in Ukraine”. “The EU also expresses its support for the ICC prosecutor’s investigation in Ukraine and calls for the cooperation of all states,” he adds.
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This Monday, 26 justice ministers of the EU member states issued a statement in which they support the investigation carried out by the ICC, a document that Hungary has not signed either.
According to Bloomberg, the position taken by Hungary will likely be addressed during a European summit this week in Brussels.
on friday the ICC issued an arrest warrant for President Putin and the Russian commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, for alleged involvement in the forcible transfer of Ukrainian minors from the occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. The ICC attorney general identified during the investigation the deportation to Russia of “hundreds of children from orphanages and children’s centers.”
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After the order was issued, Russia’s investigative committee has already announced that it will prosecute the ICC prosecutor and judges. “Criminal prosecution is obviously illegal, as there is no basis for criminal liability,” he says.
Harsh criticism of the ICC has come from Russia. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev left, via Telegram, a warning about the arrest warrant. “Judges, look at the sky,” he said, threatening to send the Oniks “hypersonic missile” from the North Sea to the building that serves as the courthouse in the Dutch city of The Hague.
On the president’s own reaction to the ICC decision, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin remained “calm” and “continued to work.” in the usual instructions daily, quoted by the Russian news agency RIA, Peskov also said that the Russian head of state “did not take the arrest warrant seriously.”
Source: Observadora
