Putin to travel to Mongolia next week despite an ICC warrant for his arrest

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****** to travel to Mongolia next week despite an ICC warrant for his arrest

Russian President Vladimir ****** will visit Mongolia next week, the Kremlin said Thursday, despite the country being a member of the International ********* Court, which last year issued a warrant for his arrest.

The visit, scheduled for Sept. 3, will be ******’s first trip to an ICC member state since the warrant was issued in March 2023 over suspected war ******* in Ukraine.

Under the court’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute, ICC members are bound to detain suspects for whom an arrest warrant has been issued by the court, if they set foot on their soil.

But the court doesn’t have any enforcement mechanism. In a famous case, then Sudanese President

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wasn’t arrested in 2015 when he visited

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, which is a member of the court, sparking ****** condemnation by rights activists and the country’s main opposition party.

The Kremlin, which had previously stressed that it doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, didn’t comment on the prospects of ****** being arrested in Mongolia.

According to the Kremlin’s online statement, ****** will travel to Mongolia upon the invitation of President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh “to participate in the ceremonial events dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the ****** victory of the ******* and Mongolian armed forces over the ********* militarists on the Khalkhin Gol River.” ****** will also hold talks with Khurelsukh and other top Mongolian officials, the statement read.

The ICC has accused ****** of personal responsibility for the

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, where Moscow has fought a devastating war for the last 2½ years.

It was the first time the global court has issued a warrant against a leader of one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The ICC said in a statement that ****** “is allegedly responsible for the war ****** of

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and that of unlawful transfer of (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

The Kremlin has dismissed the warrant as “null and void.”

****** hasn’t traveled to ICC member states ever since. ****** skipped a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies last year in South *******.

South ******* lobbied Moscow for months for ****** not to attend to avoid the diplomatic fallout since the country is an ICC member, and ultimately announced the countries had reached a “mutual agreement” that ****** not attend a meeting he’s normally a fixture at. The Kremlin said that ****** had decided not to attend in person. He instead took part in the summit in Johannesburg by video link, during which he launched a tirade against the West.

Last, year, the Kremlin also bristled at old ally Armenia over its

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, adding to the growing tensions between Moscow and Yerevan. Armenian officials, however, quickly sought to assure Russia that ****** wouldn’t be arrested if he entered the country.

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