AFP | | Posted by Nisha Anand
The Kremlin mentioned Friday that the Worldwide Prison Court docket’s resolution to difficulty an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin was legally “void” since Moscow doesn’t recognise the Hague-based court docket’s jurisdiction.
“Russia, identical to quite a lot of totally different nations, doesn’t recognise the jurisdiction of this court docket and so from a authorized standpoint, the selections of this court docket are void,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters.
Russia isn’t a member of the ICC.
Russian overseas ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned the selections of the ICC “don’t have any which means” for Russia.
“Russia isn’t a celebration to the Rome Statute of the Worldwide Prison Court docket and bears no obligations underneath it,” she mentioned on Telegram.
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“Russia doesn’t cooperate with this physique and attainable ‘recipes’ for arrest coming from the worldwide court docket might be legally void so far as we’re involved,” Zakharova mentioned, with out referring to Putin by title.
Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev additionally took to Twitter, likening the warrant to rest room paper.
The ICC introduced earlier Friday it had issued an arrest warrant towards Putin for the “illegal deportation” of Ukrainian youngsters.
It had additionally issued a warrant towards Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s presidential commissioner for youngsters’s rights, on comparable fees.
“There have been sanctions towards me from all nations, even Japan, and now an arrest warrant…,” Lvova-Belova was quoted as saying by state information company RIA Novosti. “However we are going to proceed our work.”