The President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rejected a request by Ukraine to arrest Vladimir Putin, if the Russian chief have been to land within the Latin American nation this fall for the inauguration of its new head of state.
The Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin final 12 months in reference to the battle between Russia and Ukraine. Mexico is one 124 nations recognizing the jurisdiction of The Hague-based physique.
“We can not try this,” Lopez Obrador replied when requested by journalists throughout a press convention on Thursday if the Mexican authorities are actually going to detain the Russian president. “It isn’t as much as us,” he added, as cited by Reuters.
Izvestia newspaper had reported on yesterday that Mexico had invited Putin to the inauguration this October of its new president, Claudia Sheinbaum. In response to the Mexican Embassy in Moscow, the Russian chief will determine whether or not to attend the ceremony himself or ship another high-ranking official to symbolize the nation.
The Ukrainian embassy in Mexico reacted to the information by reminding the nation’s authorities that Putin is needed by the ICC and by asking it to arrest the Russian chief if he comes. “We’re assured that the Mexican authorities would adjust to the worldwide arrest warrant by handing the aforementioned individual over to the judicial physique of the UN in The Hague,” Kiev’s diplomatic mission mentioned in a press release on Wednesday. It additionally thanked Mexico Metropolis for inviting Ukrainian chief Vladimir Zelensky to the inauguration.
Mexico has taken a impartial stance towards the battle between Russia and Ukraine, with Lopez Obrador a critic of US navy assist to Kiev and of the sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West. The outgoing president’s successor, Sheinbaum, is an in depth ally and is predicted to proceed his insurance policies.
In March 2023, the ICC formally accused Putin and Russia’s commissioner for youngsters’s rights of “forcible switch of the inhabitants,” referring to evacuations of minors from fight zones amid preventing between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Moscow has dismissed the allegations as false, whereas additionally accusing the courtroom of being politically compromised. Russia, which by no means ratified the 1998 Rome Statute that established the ICC, additionally identified that the UN physique had no authority over it.
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