Mongolia does not arrest Putin for the ISS Order, he goes under "China's security guarantees" - Bloomberg

Next week, the Russian president will make his first visit to the Member Country of the International Criminal Court from the moment of issuing a warrant for his arrest in March 2023. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has assured the scheduled visit to Mongolia, which is not arrested for a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. This was reported on Friday, August 30, by Bloomberg with reference to sources.

Putin's visit to Mongolia, scheduled for September 3, will be the first visit to the Russian President to the Member Country of the ISS since the order was issued to his arrest last March. As a country that signed the Roman Statute governing the court's activity, Mongolia is obliged to execute a warrant and arrest Putin if he appears in its territory.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in response to a request to comment on whether Mongolia gave guarantees that she would not fulfill the ISS warrant, replied that "we had such a problem. " A political consultant close to the Kremlin, Sergei Markov, also assured that there was no risk of Putin's arrest in Mongolia.

"Before any foreign trips, the whole spectrum of negotiation is agreed in advance, and the host country gives a 100% guarantee that neither Putin nor any of the delegation members will be detained," he said. Bloomberg notes that Mongolia is gaining importance as a third country to facilitate trade between Russia and China against the background of the threat of US sanctions against Chinese firms cooperating with the Russian Federation.

Stanislav Belkowski, Russian political technologist and former Kremlin's former political advisor stated that "Putin goes to Mongolia under China's security guarantees," he said he is now a government critic. "Mongolia will not go against China, even if she does not want to fight the United States," he explained. Putin missed last year's summit in South Africa leaders of the Brix group after the country made it clear that she would have to execute the ISS warrant.

The Russian leader also decided not to go to the G-20 summit last year in India, although it is not a member of the ISS. Brazil invited Putin to the G-20 summit, which she will accept in November. President Luis Inasio Lula da Silva said that the judiciary should decide whether to arrest Putin. Neither Russia nor the United States are among 124 countries that recognize the jurisdiction of the ISS.