March 25 () –
The president of the Russian Duma or Parliament, Viacheslav Volodin, has proposed this Saturday to approve a law that explicitly prohibits all activity of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the country and penalizes any aid that is provided to this institution.
“The decisions of the CFI, the European Court of Human Rights and other institutions used by Washington to achieve its objectives do not apply on the territory of Russia,” Volodin said in a message posted on his Telegram channel and picked up by official agencies. russian.
“The Supreme Commander of the Russian Federation should have the right to take the necessary measures to protect our citizens from international institutions that make decisions that go against the norms of the Russian Constitution,” he added, referring to the arrest warrant. issued by the CFI against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the forced deportation of Ukrainian minors to Russia.
Volodin recalled that already in 2002 the United States passed a law to protect its military personnel according to which no US citizen can be detained by order of the ICC.
“It even allows Washington to carry out a military intervention if US military, officials or politicians are detained. It has been unofficially called the ‘Hague invasion law’,” he said.
The initiative should also have consequences in the diplomatic sphere. “It is important to organize the work to reach bilateral agreements with friendly countries and that there is a mutual renunciation of aid to the ICC,” he added.
