Hungary says if Russian President Putin visits the arrest warrant will not be carried out by the International Criminal Court. The point is not in Hungarian law.
after last week the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant. Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges for illegally bringing hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia. amid doubts that Issuing this arrest warrant Will Putin be caught or not?
Recently, Hungary has revealed that President Putin will not be arrested. If he comes into the country
Yesterday (March 23), the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Kercal Kulyac, said that although Hungary has signed the Rome Statute, this is the treaty establishing the ICC and it was ratified in 2001, but based on Hungarian law. Putin could not be arrested.
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“If we refer to Hungarian law We will not be able to arrest the president of Russia… because the rules of the ICC have not been enacted in Hungary yet,” Gulyash said, emphasizing that This is not a representation of the Hungarian government’s position on the arrest warrant ICC for Putin.
In principle, 123 ICC member states are required to implement arrest warrants. This means that if Putin enters any of these territories, he should be arrested by the law enforcement agencies of that country.
However, Gulyash claimed that the Rome Statute was not established in the Hungarian legal system. Therefore, it is not relevant. Gluyash also mentioned the arrest warrant saying, “These decisions are not the best. Because it was a decision that led to a further escalation of the war. not for peace This is my personal opinion.”
However, this comment may not surprise Hungary’s European neighbors. Hungary, under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has always been one of Russia’s closest European allies. After Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last year Orban is leading the EU’s most reluctant country to punish Russia.
Although Hungary is a member of the NATO alliance, in the past it has strongly opposed Western nations supplying arms to Ukraine. Orban once warned that Europe is bringing itself to war in Ukraine. He also tried to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
In Russia after issuing an arrest warrant. He immediately came out to respond to that It’s unacceptable. and said that Russia was not subject to ICC decisions.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian government “Russia, like many states The jurisdiction of this court is not recognized, therefore, any decision of this nature is void for the Russian Federation in terms of law.
As the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said last week, “Article 27 of the Rome Statute clearly states that a person’s official position is not linked to jurisdiction. An independent judge of the court found it appropriate to issue an arrest warrant.”
Compiled from CNN
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