Hungary leaves the international criminal court in a gesture of support in Netanyahu and Putin
The Hungarian government He announced his decision on Thursday withdraw from the International Criminal CourtAs reported by the Minister of the Presidency, Gergely Gulyás, through a message published on the social network Facebook.
The Hungarian manager, Ruled by the ultra -nationalist Viktor OrbanIt will warn the procedure “in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework”, said the minister, in a decision with important implications for the entire European Union and global geopolitics.
The measure occurs after the arrival in Budapest of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin NetanyahuThis Thursday. This is his first visit to a state belonging to the Rome Statute, since the ICC issued his arrest warrant in November 2024 for alleged war crimes and humanity injured in the Gaza Strip.
What is the statute of Rome?
This treaty was adopted by the international community on 17 July 1998 in a diplomatic conference held in the Eternal City. The agreement ordered the creation of an international criminal court with Skills on genocide crimes, lesa’s humanity and war. The Statute officially entered into force in July 2002.
Both Israel and the United States, a country and Netanyahu has visited recently, signed said Treaty but has not ratified it. The alleged criminal visited Donald Trump’s manager in February And he was not arrested, despite the international order in force. It was, in fact, the First foreign president to receive for the new administration. Netanyahu intervened in the United States congress, appearing against politicians of both the Republican Party and the democratic opposition. Trump recently signed an order that It imposes penalties to the International Criminal Court.
To date, only two countries have abandoned the ICC: Burundi In 2017 and Philippines In 2019, under the mandate of Rodrigo Detterte, which was precisely arrested by the Court lately. Hungary, however, has ratified the treaty that gives international legitimacy to the CPI. The reason for its abandonment, according to the minister, is that the organization has devoted itself from its original goal and “has become a political court”.
The Court issued another arrest warrant against the Russian president, Vladimir PutinIn March 2023, also for war crimes. The Kremlin maintains good relations with the ORBán executive: this has visited Moscow less than a year ago and threats in a recurring way The votes of the European Union to promulgate penalties against Russia for his war with Ukraine.
