President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Wednesday withdrawing Russia’s signature from the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty, whose pronouncements Moscow has derided as one-sided.
The order, which took immediate effect, said Russia would not ratify the ICC’s founding treaty, something it signed in 2000.
Having not ratified the treaty in the first place, Moscow was not subject to the ICC’s jurisdiction anyway and its decision was therefore symbolic.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement the court had unfairly accused Russian forces involved in a brief 2008 war with Georgia. A report issued on Monday by the ICC’s Office of …read more
Source: African news network 7
