Ahead of Vladimir Putin‘s Mongolia visit, Ukraine has urged Ulaanbaatar to arrest the Russian President on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant after he lands there on September 3.
“We call on the Mongolian authorities to comply with the mandatory international arrest warrant and transfer Putin to the International Criminal Court in the Hague,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Telegram, reported news agency AFP.
Asked earlier on Friday whether Moscow was concerned that Mongolia is a member of the ICC, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “No, no worries about this. We have a great dialogue with our friends from Mongolia.”
Last year, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes and illegal deportation of children from Ukraine.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said that Putin was now liable for arrest if he set foot in any of the court’s more than 120 member states. Russia is not a party to the ICC so it was unclear if or how Putin could ever end up in the dock. India is also not an ICC member and Putin is expected to travel to New Delhi at the end of the year for the G20 world leaders’ summit.
What crimes is Putin accused of?
Both Putin and Lvova-Belova are accused of being responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of people, in particular children, and their unlawful transfer from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
Citing a report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, the BBC said in a report that some of these children were forced to take Russian citizenship and placed in foster families due to which they ended up “remaining permanently” in Russia.
If further said that the transfers were meant to be temporary but both parents and children faced “an array of obstacles in establishing contact”.
There are 16,221 children who were forcibly taken to Russia, according to the UN investigators. The ICC said it sees reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears “individual responsibility for the crimes either by committing them directly, jointly with others and/or through others”.
It also said that Putin failed to exercise proper control over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts or allowed for their commission and who were under his effective authority and control.
The arrest warrant obliges member states to arrest Putin or Lvova-Belova if they were to travel to their country. The ICC, however, has no police force of its own or other ways to enforce arrests.
“We call on the Mongolian authorities to comply with the mandatory international arrest warrant and transfer Putin to the International Criminal Court in the Hague,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Telegram, reported news agency AFP.
Asked earlier on Friday whether Moscow was concerned that Mongolia is a member of the ICC, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “No, no worries about this. We have a great dialogue with our friends from Mongolia.”
Last year, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes and illegal deportation of children from Ukraine.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said that Putin was now liable for arrest if he set foot in any of the court’s more than 120 member states. Russia is not a party to the ICC so it was unclear if or how Putin could ever end up in the dock. India is also not an ICC member and Putin is expected to travel to New Delhi at the end of the year for the G20 world leaders’ summit.
What crimes is Putin accused of?
Both Putin and Lvova-Belova are accused of being responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of people, in particular children, and their unlawful transfer from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
Citing a report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, the BBC said in a report that some of these children were forced to take Russian citizenship and placed in foster families due to which they ended up “remaining permanently” in Russia.
If further said that the transfers were meant to be temporary but both parents and children faced “an array of obstacles in establishing contact”.
There are 16,221 children who were forcibly taken to Russia, according to the UN investigators. The ICC said it sees reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears “individual responsibility for the crimes either by committing them directly, jointly with others and/or through others”.
It also said that Putin failed to exercise proper control over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts or allowed for their commission and who were under his effective authority and control.
The arrest warrant obliges member states to arrest Putin or Lvova-Belova if they were to travel to their country. The ICC, however, has no police force of its own or other ways to enforce arrests.