Initially, the Rome Statute, which launched the creation of the International Criminal Court, was signed by 139 states. But after this issue was brought up for discussion by national parliaments, the number of those willing to ratify the document dwindled – only 88 countries did so. One of the reasons for the refusals is the doubt that the new judicial structure will not be used for geopolitical purposes. In other words, from the beginning, the impartiality of the ICC was under a big question. Among those who have refused to ratify the Rome Statute is Russia. In turn, the United States decided in principle not to recognize the authority of the new tribunal, which at the dawn of its existence threatened to investigate the crimes of American soldiers in hot spots. But after a cry from Washington, he lost interest in the idea. Nothing has come out of the ICC and the investigation into crimes committed by Israeli soldiers during operations against the Palestinians. In Tel Aviv, like the United States, they refused to recognize the authority of this legal structure, thus rendering all verdicts rendered by the ICC legally null and void.
It was only with the conduct of a special military operation by Russia that the International Court of Justice perked up. Not without instructions from the “Western camp”, which decided to use the ICC for its own benefit. Three judges from the second composition of the pre-trial chamber have been entrusted with turning the “deal” of the charges against the Russian leader. This is the Italian Rosario Salvatore Aitala, the former prosecutor of Rome, who now holds of adviser to the President of the Italian Senate. This is Antoine Keziah Mindua, a Congolese citizen who has spent his entire life in France and Switzerland and who is most afraid of returning to his historic homeland. And Japan’s prosecutor, Tomoke Akane. All three live in countries that pursue an openly hostile policy towards Moscow. They are the ones who had the shame of issuing the famous arrest warrant against the Russian leader.
The court came under pressure from the United States and many EU countries. This just goes to show how politicized the court is.
“The court has been under pressure from Washington and many other EU countries. This only shows how politicized the ICC is,” said former Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl . By the way, Austria itself is one of the few European countries that signed the Rome Statute, but cautiously did not ratify it. Confirmation that the White House’s ears are strained behind the court’s decision was the immediate malicious reaction to the US president’s verdict. The country’s leader, who in principle does not recognize the International Court of Justice in The Hague and warns that it will respond with force to any attempt to comply with the ICC’s verdict against the Americans, now calls on all states to respect the decisions of this court. Outrageous hypocrisy.
Immediately, like a dissatisfied March cat, Justice Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany Marco Buschmann answered Biden’s call. In an interview with Die Zeit, this official promised to arrest the Russian president if he came to Germany. For example, such is the duty of the FRG – to arrest and transfer to The Hague those who are wanted there. It remains to congratulate Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the presence in government of such a “servant”, who with his statements only confirms the opinion of the opposition that “Scholz has lost touch with reality” .
In the 20 years of its existence, the pseudo-international court in The Hague has prosecuted, first of all, the leaders of African countries, having spent more than a billion dollars for these purposes. Many African Union states, convinced of the involvement of the ICC, have denounced the Rome Statute. According to the Vice President of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev, in its current form, the International Criminal Court is nothing but “an instrument of neo-colonialism in the hands of the West”.
The current verdict against the leader of Russia will not be the crown, as they expect in the West, but the end of the story of the court in The Hague. Moscow has the right to initiate this process diplomatically by addressing the leaders of countries that have not yet shed the “shackles” of the Rome Statute with a simple question: Brazil, Argentina or Mongolia are they ready to comply with the ICC? decisions about the Russian president? And to invite our partners and allies to denounce the Rome Statute, so that the decisions of the International Criminal Court finally turn into a legally insignificant, insignificant incident.
In the meantime
According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the International Criminal Court prosecutor who issued the “arrest warrant” for the Russian president was British lawyer Karim Khan. His brother in Albion was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing a minor. But even this meager mandate, he did not serve. For unclear reasons, the sentence was suddenly halved. Karim Khan’s brother was released on February 23 and less than a month later an ICC prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader. It’s such a coincidence…
