What does the arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin issued by the International Criminal Court mean? Responding to the decision, Polish MFB.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The judges agreed with the prosecution’s request and acknowledged that there are real reasons to believe that Putin is responsible for war crimes, including the unlawful deportation of children from occupied Ukraine to Russia.
Deputy Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta drew attention to the activities of the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office.
The ICC also used the evidence provided by the Polish @PK_GOV_PL, which, alongside the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, provided the most evidence of all prosecutors involved in the international investigation. In Poland, more than 1,600 witnesses were questioned
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He also referred to Defense24.pl’s Bartłomiej Wypartowicz.
What does today’s arrest warrant mean for Putin in practice? Each state party to the Rome Statute is obliged to arrest the suspect if he wants to go to his country and to extradite him to the prosecution service of the International Criminal Court
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The reaction of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its satisfaction with the issuing of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court against Vladimir Putin. This is the Tribunal’s first decisive formal step towards bringing the highest Russian authorities to justice and forms part of international efforts to bring to justice Russian crimes committed in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland welcomes the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin (President of the Russian Federation) and Maria Lwova-Biełowa (President’s Plenipotentiary for the Rights of the Child of the Russian Federation) on suspicion of committing war crimes involving the unlawful deportation of persons (children) and unlawful resettlement of the population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation
– said Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Łukasz Jasina in a statement published on the Ministry’s website on Friday evening.
The decision is the Tribunal’s first decisive formal step to bring the highest Russian authorities to justice and is part of the wider international community’s efforts to bring Russian crimes committed in Ukraine to justice.
– added.
‘Formal indication that Putin should be treated as a criminal’
The arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is a formal indication that Putin should be treated as a criminal, Stanisław Żaryn, the government’s plenipotentiary for the security of the information space of the Republic of Poland, said on Friday.
Zaryn, who was a guest at Polsat News, was asked about the meaning of the arrest warrant for Putin.
First, it is a formal step to talk about the consequences of crimes committed on behalf of Putin and in connection with what he started by attacking Ukraine.
he answered.
He pointed out that it is also a “signal of a symbolic nature”.
Let me remind you that this is an international formal indication that Vladimir Putin should be treated as a criminal
he announced.
He added that “this is also a reason to talk about the shocking practices of the Russians.”
One of the main motives behind this request is the operation to kidnap Ukrainian children and transport them to Russia. The data at my disposal shows that this is a massive practice of denationalizing Ukrainians. We are talking about several hundred thousand children and women who may have been abducted from their families to Russia
Jaryn explained.
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Source: wPolityce
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