Constant verbal attacks against the International Criminal Court (ICC) come after the court issued an arrest warrant against President Vladimir Putin. Saturday’s attack on the ICC comes just two days after former President Dmitry Medvedev threatened to attack Germany with nuclear weapons if the Germans tried to arrest Putin. Putin and Volodin. The photo was taken in 2015 and is from the time when the latter was the president’s chief of staff. Photo: Alexei Druzhinin / AP Germany is one of the countries in the West that has confirmed that Putin will be arrested and sent to The Hague if he gets there. The Reuters news agency writes on Saturday that it is the leader of the Russian parliament, the Duma, who says that Russia should punish anyone who cooperates with the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Vyacheslav Volodin is said to be a very close ally of President Putin. The head of the Duma also made a name for himself in January when he threatened “global catastrophe” if weapons from the West lead to Ukraine taking back land now controlled by Russian forces. The head of the Russian parliament, Duman, threatens to punish anyone who cooperates with the International Criminal Court. Photo: Alexei Nikolsky / AP – It is necessary to draft legislative amendments to ban all ICC activities on our country’s territory, writes Volodin on the Telegram messaging service. Arrest warrant against Putin The ICC, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, issued an arrest warrant against Putin earlier this month. The specific accusation concerns children who are to be deported from Ukraine to Russia. According to the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan, hundreds of Ukrainian children have been taken out of orphanages and taken to Russia, where many have since been adopted. Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court visiting Ukraine on 28 February. Photo: UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER / Reuters – There is reason to believe that Putin has an individual responsibility for these crimes, the court’s reasoning said. The Russian authorities have reacted very strongly to the arrest warrant and, among other things, launched an investigation into Karim Khan, writes NTB. 123 countries in the world are members of the ICC, but Russia is not among them. The US, India and China have also not joined the International Court of Justice. Challenges for the peace work Jo Stigen, professor at the Department of Public Law, believes that the arrest warrant issued by the ICC may lead to challenges for the peace work. Jo Stigen, professor at the Department of Public Law, believes the arrest warrant makes Putin even more marginalized and alone. Photo: Christian Breilid / news – It is getting more and more difficult for other countries’ heads of state to meet Putin, says Stigen to news. – Simply making a phone call to the Russian president will be more difficult for other countries’ leaders when he has an arrest warrant hanging over him. Putin more marginalized Through the arrest warrant, 123 member states, according to Stigen, have been told to arrest the Russian president. – That makes it almost impossible for Putin to travel abroad, and more difficult for other heads of state to enter Moscow, he says. Stigen therefore believes that the arrest warrant makes the Russian president even more marginalized and alone. The Duma leader has threatened before It was on 22 January that Putin ally Volodin threatened nuclear war if new weapons from the West cause Ukraine to take back areas occupied by Russian forces. – The delivery of offensive weapons to the regime in Kyiv will lead to a global catastrophe, says Vyacheslav Volodin. – If Washington and NATO countries deliver weapons in an attempt to take our lands, as they have threatened, it will lead to retaliation with more powerful weapons, he continues. Four counties in eastern Ukraine in addition to the Crimean peninsula have been declared part of Russia by the Putin regime. – The argument that nuclear powers have never before used weapons of mass destruction in a war between two neighboring countries is untenable, said Volodin. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council and former Prime Minister and President Dmitry Medvedev. Photo: SPUTNIK / Reuters The powerful politician believes the situation cannot be compared to previous use of nuclear weapons. – Nuclear powers have not previously been exposed to the same threats to their citizens and land, says Volodin. The threats in January came a few days after former President Dimitrij Medvedev said something similar. – No nuclear power has lost a conflict that is decisive for their fate, said Medvedev, who is currently deputy chairman of the Security Council, to President Putin. “Fighting a nuclear power in a conventional war can trigger a nuclear war,” the former president continued. Those threats were seen as a warning to Ukraine not to consider taking back the Crimean peninsula. Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin on the outskirts of Kyiv on February 28. Photo: VALENTYN OGIRENKO / Reuters
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