The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has joined the calls addressed to Mongolia to fulfill its obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The corresponding statement was published the day before on the official website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
"Putin and other members of the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation must be brought to justice. These individuals are guilty of an aggressive war against Ukraine…We call on the Mongolian authorities to execute the mandatory international arrest warrant and transfer Putin to the International Criminal Court in The Hague," the statement said.
Recall that the visit of the Russian president to Ulaanbaatar is scheduled for Tuesday, September 3. This trip will be Putin's first visit to a country that has signed the Rome Statute of the ICC since the court ordered his arrest in March 2023.
Vladimir Putin will meet with the head of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. The press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin is not afraid of Putin's arrest, since he has Russia "has a wonderful dialogue with friends in Mongolia."
According to Bloomberg, Ulaanbaatar, for its part, promised that it would not be guided by the ICC decision and refused to execute its arrest warrant for Putin.