Karim Khan assured that Mongolia needs to explain why it ignored the ICC order and hosted the Russian dictator.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, in an interview with the BBC, spoke about the prospects of the head of the ruling regime of Russia, Vladimir Putin, appearing before the court, while mentioning the tribunal in the former Yugoslavia .
According to the prosecutor, the Ukrainian side asked him to conduct an investigation into Russia’s actions in 2021, when he met with the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. But at that time, the ICC did not have the resources for this, and he himself had many other responsibilities, because shortly before his trip to Ukraine he was in office. Moreover, he does not believe that Putin will decide to attack Ukraine.
“But when they did it, I decided that everything was completely obvious and we should start an investigation. I visited the scene of the events, and when you hear stories, evidence, see destruction, hear statements from various people, including statements from Vladimir Putin and (Maria ) Lvova-Belova, it is not difficult to apply the full severity of the law,” he explained.
Karim Khan assured that Mongolia will have to explain why it ignored the ICC order.
“The negotiation process at the court level may give their recommendations if a lack of cooperation is identified, but I do not want to predict anything, because this issue is being resolved between the judges and the government of Mongolia.” explained the prosecutor.
Asked if he believed Putin would find himself in the dock at The Hague, Khan responded by citing the example of the former Yugoslavia.
“People laughed when the Former Yugoslavia Tribunal sought an arrest warrant for Karadzic and Mladic, not to mention Milosevic, when the Special Court for Sierra Leone issued an arrest warrant for former President Charles Taylor, but as history has shown, these people who owned in the past, who had great power in their country and region, ended up in the dock. .
As we have already written, Putin’s visit to Mongolia on September 3 was the first visit to a state party to the Rome Statute of the ICC since the court issued an arrest warrant for him in March 2023.
We added that the Foreign Ministry said Mongolia did not comply with the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin during his visit.
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