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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres will continue to meet and talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin even after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin, UN Secretary-General’s Office representative Stephane Dijarric said at a press conference on Friday.
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“The International Criminal Court is independent from [ANO] Secretariat, and we do not comment on its decisions,” emphasized Dijarric.
“We will continue to believe that [ANO] the Secretary-General will speak to those he needs to speak to in order to address the issues that have been put to him,” Guterres’ spokesman said.
Dijarric evasively answered the question whether, under the current circumstances, the UN Secretary General can guarantee the Russian president’s participation in UN events if they take place on the territory of the signatories of the Rome Statute of the ICC.
“As I said before, this applies to everyone: [ANO] the secretary general will always talk to those he needs to talk to in order to move forward (..) I can only speak for him,” Dijarric noted.
It has already been reported that the ICC has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and children’s rights defender Maria Lvova-Belova for the deportation of Ukrainian children.
Russia is not a member of the ICC and it is unclear how the ICC plans to enforce the warrant. Ukraine is also not a member of the ICC, but Kyiv has accepted the court’s jurisdiction and is cooperating with its prosecutor’s office.
There are 123 countries that are members of the Rome Statute of the ICC, including South American countries and about half of African countries, so they must formally take into account the warrants issued by the ICC.
Among the countries that have not signed and ratified this statute are Belarus, India, China, Kazakhstan and Turkey. The United States and Russia signed this statute, but later withdrew their signature.
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