The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government press conference. “It’s not up to us.” Ukraine asked Mexico to arrest Putin if he attends the Oct. 1 swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum. The request, in a statement from Ukraine’s Mexican embassy dated Aug. 7, pointed to an arrest warrant issued by the U.N.'s International Criminal Court (ICC).
Why would they have to do that?
They are signatories of the ICC. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin so any signatory nations are supposed to attempt to apprehend him.
Like… I understand the reasoning they won’t… But like…
Don’t be surprised if your friends stop inviting you to parties when you go back on your word, and invite fascist dictators to your own parties…
My knee-jerk reaction was to say ‘because they are a signatory to the Rome Statute’, but on further reading discovered that all requests from the ICC for a nation’s cooperation are described as ‘may’, not ‘shall’ be agreed to, and worse, that if a nation refuses the matter will get forwarded to the UN Assembly and inevitably to the UN Security Council (Article 87-7). This essentially means Russia can veto, so in reality the don’t have to or at least would only worry about sanctions.
My hope is they are loudly refusing Ukraine’s request now as bait.
Im hoping US will use a fleet of Reaper drones to harass Putin’s plane just like Russian fighters do to drones in international airspace, forcing it to detour and land on a conveniently nearby US Carrier beforing steaming straight for the Hague as his plane is disassembled down to nuts and bolts before being shipped piecemeal back to Moscow