Members of the international court are bound to detain suspects if an arrest warrant has been issued, but the court doesn’t have any enforcement mechanism.
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00:00Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrived to Mongolia on a state visit, but despite
00:05an outstanding international warrant, he wasn't arrested by the ICC member state.
00:11Putin was welcomed at Mongolia's international airport by the country's foreign minister.
00:16The official visit comes amid an international warrant for his arrest nearly 18 months ago
00:20on charges of war crimes in Ukraine.
00:24Ukraine and the EU had called on Mongolia to fulfil its obligation to the ICC and arrest
00:29Putin.
00:30We have raised our concerns about the visit and stated our position of the ICC clearly
00:37via our delegation in Mongolia and of course the EU supports the investigation by the prosecutor
00:43of the ICC in Ukraine and we call for the full cooperation by all state parties.
00:51Members of the ICC are bound to detain suspects if an arrest warrant has been issued, but
00:56the court doesn't have any enforcement mechanism.
01:00The ICC has accused Putin of being responsible for the abduction of children from Ukraine,
01:05where the fighting has raged for two and a half years.