Austria is ready to comply with the ICC ruling regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country’s Federal Justice Ministry said in a statement.
The declaration indicates that Austria is a party to the Rome Statute.
“This means that Austria, like all other contracting parties, is obliged to cooperate with the ISS: the arrest warrants issued by this court must be executed, and the wanted ISS must be arrested,” said the Austrian Ministry of Justice in a statement.
On March 17, the ICC announced its intention to issue arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, as well as for the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. Earlier, German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said in an interview with Die Zeit that German authorities would be forced to arrest Vladimir Putin if he arrived in Germany.
