Former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has considered that the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin will have »monstrous consequences».
Medvedev has framed this warrant within the »collapse» of the international justice system, exemplified in an ICC whose efficiency is »zero». In this sense, he suggested that in Putin’s case none of the hypotheses that would allow him to be tried in The Hague are present: neither Russia is internally in a position of weakness that prevents it from maintaining its current system nor has it lost any war.
Steps of this kind, he added, will cause that nobody will seek help from international law and that, instead, countries will negotiate among themselves. »The grim decline of the whole system of international relations is approaching. Trust has been lost,» said Medvedev, who places the ICC within an orbit of interests that also includes the United States.
In addition to Putin, the Hague court has also designated as a fugitive the main responsible for children’s rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, in both cases as suspects in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children in occupied areas in the east of the country.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
