The head office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (IC) will legally check the words of Marco Buschman, head of the Federal Ministry of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany, on the detention of Russian citizens in Germany. . RIA Novosti provides information on this with reference to the UK press service.
“President of the IC of Russia [Александр Бастрыкин] As part of the ongoing inspection, he instructed the headquarters of the department to carry out the necessary legal assessment of the statements of the German Minister of Justice on the fulfillment of the International Criminal Court’s illegal requirement to detain citizens of the Russian Federation. in Germany, ”says the publication.
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said in an earlier interview with Die Zeit that he was ready to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he “set foot on German soil”.
“The ICC will quickly contact Interpol and seek sanctions. “Then, if Germany enters the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, it will have to arrest President Putin and hand him over to the ICC,” he said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had previously supported the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin. According to the head of the German government, the International Criminal Court is investigating war crimes and “no one can be above the law.”
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said on March 19 that Moscow does not recognize any decision of the ICC because it considers it unimportant in terms of legal weight.
We consider all the decisions of the International Criminal Court, which we do not recognize, legally invalid.”
The Chairman of the Federation Council International Committee, Grigory Karasin, said the ICC’s decision to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “psychological attack” aimed at “destroying the morale of Russian society”.
According to him, too much attention should not be paid to the decision of the structures of the ICC, the jurisdiction of which the Russian Federation does not recognize.
“One way or another, this becomes an advertisement for a ridiculous and hostile act by the West.”
Maria Zakharova, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, previously reminded that Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the ICC and therefore does not bear any obligations under this Statute. “Potential detention prescriptions from the International Court of Justice will also be legally null and void for us,” he said.
“We find the raising of the question offensive and unacceptable,” Dmitry Peskov said on March 17.
Not only the representatives of Germany, but also other foreign politicians reacted to the ICC’s decision to arrest Vladimir Putin abroad. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on March 19 that the ICC order “cut off the West’s path of dialogue with Russia”.
“My question is: Great, now you’ve accused him of the most serious war crimes and who are you going to negotiate with? Or maybe you won’t talk, won’t you make up? You are waiting for defeat, but how long do you have to wait, how many years? Do you really think you can beat Russia in three months, six months or a year? Do you believe that?” said the Serbian leader.
According to Vučić, the ICC’s order to arrest Putin “was not a wise decision” and would have had negative political repercussions.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described the decision of the International Criminal Court as “a shocking political event”. According to him, this will have wide-ranging geopolitical consequences in Europe and the rest of the world.
“President Putin is the leader of a nuclear power with thousands of nuclear weapons,” Hun Sen added.
The ICC was created by the 1998 Rome Statute. Countries that are not party to the Statute include the Russian Federation (signed but not ratified).), the United States (signed but later withdrew), and China (did not sign the charter).