March 20 () –
The former Russian president and current vice president of the country’s Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, has considered that the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant against the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will have “monstrous consequences”.
Medvedev has framed this order within the “collapse” of the international justice system, exemplified in a CFI whose efficiency is “zero”. In this sense, he has suggested that in the case of Putin none of the hypotheses that would allow him to be tried in The Hague is given: neither is Russia internally in a position of weakness that prevents it from maintaining its current system nor has it lost any war.
Steps of this type, he added, will cause no one to seek help in International Law and, instead, countries to negotiate among themselves. “The gloomy decline of the entire system of international relations is approaching. Confidence has been lost,” said Medvedev, who places the CFI within an orbit of interests that also includes the United States.
In addition to Putin, the court in The Hague has also identified the main person responsible for children’s rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, as a fugitive, in both cases as suspects in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children in occupied areas of the east from the country.
