Washington: However, he agreed with the court's assertions that Russian President Vladimir Putin committed "war crimes" in Ukraine. US President Joe Biden acknowledged on Friday that Washington does not recognise the International Criminal Court.
When asked about the ICC on Friday night before boarding a helicopter, Biden responded, "Well, I think it's justified. "But the issue is that neither we nor the rest of the world recognise it. However, I believe it makes a very compelling point.
According to Biden, Putin "clearly committed war crimes," in response to a different reporter. In addition, he asserted that the allegations regarding payments made by Chinese nationals to members of his family were "not true" and that the US banking crisis has subsided.
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Along with Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, Putin was charged earlier in the day with "unlawful transfer of population" by the Hague-based ICC Pre-trial Chamber. The assertion appears to be based on how the Kiev government interprets Russian efforts to remove kids from frontline regions that the Ukrainian military has frequently attacked with weapons from NATO.
The announcement was dismissed as meaningless by the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry, who noted that Russia is not a signatory to the Rome Statute of the ICC and that the tribunal has no jurisdiction whatsoever in the nation.
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Other Russian officials claimed that the ICC had just destroyed itself, proving how "worthless and insignificant" organisations supported by the West have become. Dmitry Medvedev, a former president of Russia and vice-chair of the Russian Security Council, compared the ICC "warrant" to toilet paper.
Although the ICC was designed to be similar to the US-backed "tribunals" for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Washington withdrew from it in 2002 and passed a law allowing "all necessary and appropriate means" including military force to be used to free any American or citizen of an ally country who had been detained by the court.
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A total of 45 nations, including China, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, do not acknowledge the court's jurisdiction.