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Mongolian officials "have the obligation" to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits the country next week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) says (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by 0x815@feddit.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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The trip, expected to happen on Tuesday [4 Sep], will be the first time the Russian leader has visited an ICC member nation since the court ordered his arrest in March 2023.

The court alleges Mr Putin is responsible for war crimes, saying he failed to stop the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia since the conflict began.

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Dr Fadi el-Abdallah, a spokesperson for the ICC, [...] said Mongolia, like other ICC signatories, has the "obligation to cooperate". This includes complying with arrest warrants such as the one the court issued for Mr Putin's arrest in 2023.

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Last year, Mr Putin cancelled a visit to a summit in South Africa following the ICC warrant for his arrest.

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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would be impressed if they risk it. Literally half of Mongolia's population resides in their capital city Ulaanbaatar. If a country bordering Russia were to arrest the sitting Russian president and turn him over to Copenhagen then there's a non-zero possibility of a retaliatory airstrike on the capital, destroying their only major city and killing a significant percentage of the entire country's population.

[–] KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

On the other hand, the power vacuum his absence would cause could result in a Gorbachev-type taking lead.

Or a Stalin....