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Eu regrets mongolia not arresting Putin

2024-09-03 23:40:34Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Eu regrets mongolia not arresting Putin

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday criticized Mongolia for its failure to implement an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICTY) for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the country.

"The EU regrets that Mongolia, a member of the Rome Statute of the ICTY, did not comply with its obligation under this statute to implement the warrant," the bloc said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Putin met Mongolia's president, Ukhna Khurelsukh, at Ulan Bator during his first visit to a member state since the court issued an arrest warrant against him in March 2023.

Putin is wanted for deporting and illegally sending Ukrainian children from occupied parts of Ukraine to Russia since he ordered the full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

A mongolian government spokesman said Mongolia, which has more than 3 million people and borders Russia and China, cannot arrest Putin because it is energy dependent.

Mongolia imports 95 percent of its petroleum products and more than 20 percent of its electricity from its immediate neighbors, and those supplies are vital to the country's survival, the spokesman told Politico.

"Mongolia has always maintained a policy of neutrality in all its diplomatic relations, as evidenced by our official statements so far," the government spokesman added.

Mongolian officials received Putin's red carpet at Ulan Bator International Airport.

Putin and Khurelsukh signed aviation fuel supplies agreements for Ulan Bator and a feasibility study and renovation work at a Mongolian power plant. Putin also outlined plans to better connect these two countries via railways.

Russian media also said Putin invited Khurelsukh to attend the southern Russian city of Kazan in October at a meeting of the BRICS group of developing countries.

This is Putin's first visit to Mongolia in the last five years.

Mongolia joined the ICJ in 2003.

Western institutions and officials called for Putin's arrest upon his arrival in Mongolia.

Russian opposition political activist Vladimir Kara-Muza, who was released from a Russian prison last month in a major prisoner swap between Russia and the West, says authorities in Mongolia should "definitely arrest" President Vladimir Putin.

He added that he and other Russian opposition politicians and activists signed an online petition calling on Mongolian authorities to arrest Putin.

"As far as the International Criminal Court is concerned, as far as the Rome Statute is concerned, as far as international law is concerned, Vladimir Putin should be arrested," Kara-Murza told Current Time on September 1.

The Kremlin said on August 30 that it did not "care" about Putin's trip, adding that Russia has "wonderful dialogue with our friends from Mongolia." /REL


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