EU regrets Mongolia’s failure to execute arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin

The European Union said yesterday that it regretted that Mongolia, a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court⁦⁩, had failed to comply with its obligations under the statute to execute the arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for crimes committed in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin went to Mongolia on 3 September despite the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant issued against him.

President Putin is under an arrest warrant by the ICC for international crimes, specifically alleged crimes of unlawful deportation and unlawful transfer of children from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories in the context of his illegal war of aggression against Ukraine.

The EU Lead Spokesperson Peter Stano said the EU expressed “its strongest support for efforts to ensure full accountability for war crimes and the other most serious crimes in connection with Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”. In this regard, the EU supports the investigations by the Prosecutor of the ICC in Ukraine and calls for full cooperation by all State Parties.

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