Mongolian officials “have the obligation” to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits the country next week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said.
The trip, expected to happen on Tuesday, will be the first time the Russian leader has visited an ICC member nation since the court ordered his arrest in March 2023.
Mongolia doesnt share a border with two belligerent superpowers. Two belligerent superpowers share a border with Mongolia.
Superpowers? China and what else? You mean the country up north that can’t finish their 3 day operation in Ukraine has no economical or geopolitical significance and no one put them in corner only because they have nukes?
China and the second strongest army in Russia.
Ever since Ukraine invaded it’s actually the third strongest army in Russia.
I thought Wagner was integrated back into the main army.
I think they are still their own thing, but were made to do a pledge of allegiance to Russia.
Originally it was, but after the death of the guy Wagner was fully integrated and dispersed into the Russian Military.
I still can’t believe he was dumb enough to get on a plane after all that.
China and Northern Mongolia?
So disappointed to discover that BBC updated the headline and the article (and no more than six hours later)…
New headline: Ukraine calls on Mongolia to arrest Putin ahead of visit
An ICC spokesperson told the BBC that Mongolian officials “have the obligation” to abide by ICC regulations, but clarified that this did not necessarily mean an arrest had to take place.
The agreement says in some circumstances, states may be exempted from the obligation to carry out an arrest where they would be forced to “breach a treaty obligation” with another state or where it would violate “diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third state”.
In other words, it’s absolutely mandatory in all situations except for all the time everywhere.
It’s a vibe.
Unrelated but wth is going on with the username and instance lol
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It’s super cool! I checked it out and even tried to register but it said registration closed, only admins can add users lol.
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All the good ones were taken.
It would be hard to do given Mongolia’s geographic situation of being next to two military superpowers
You mean the great Mongolian Armed Forces bordering cowardly Russia? Russia physically could not invade Mongolia rn. China might but I doubt they would stir the pot that much over Putin.
NCD on reddit had the idea of just putting him on a plane straight to USA, as there would be little to no possibility of China or Russia firing on a plane holding Putin.
Why the USA they themselves are not committed to the process and are not where the ICC is based.
Some Team America ideas.
I’m not going to blame Mongolia if they just ignore that. They do not have any ability to hold him.
Would be the funniest twist this century though. Common n Mongols, have some humour!
I’m having a hard time seeing why they couldn’t. It’d be a dipl9matic disaster for them to simply go “yeah, we lied” and arrest him, but on the other hand, I don’t see what russia could possibly do. Sure, medvedev will throw yhe usual hissyfit and threaten with invasion, but… he and which army?
Well China happens to really like Putin. And both countries have special forces that are more than capable of grabbing him back without a wider war. But Mongolia is also land locked and not super developed on it’s own. So it’s likely to suffer a complete air and ground blockade until they give either country enough to make them forget it happened.
There is no upside to Mongolia doing this. They aren’t strong enough to pull it off. And there are large consequences.
Not going to happen. Even if Mongolia were somehow immune to retaliation, Russia has like a 90% approval rating there.
Russia physically cannot invade Mongolia rn, I doubt they could invade parts of Russia if they declared independence.
Do it, states. Doooo eeeeet.
So will Mongolia lose its ICC rights when it doesn’t, or will they just feign attempt to feign a “we tried to arrest him, but he got away damnit!”?
You cant ask a country like mongolia to commit suicide just because.
Then it can just leave as a member of the ICC if it cannot fulfill its obligations.
Time to send a sacrificial body double then.
That would be hilarious if they arrested Putin but he just continued ruling the country from Moscow.
Would be more funny if real Putin was arrested and body double would take over ruling as if nothint happened. Entire Russia just denying the existence of real Putin.
This would be a great sitcom.
Putin Truthers having a big day!
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