Editing International Criminal Court (section)

===Russia===
{{See also|International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Russian leaders}}
[[File:XV BRICS Summit family photo.jpg|thumb|Following speculation whether South Africa would arrest him, Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] did not attend the [[15th BRICS summit]] in Johannesburg. Russia was represented by Foreign Minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] (right).<ref name="Reuters-BRICS"/>]]
In March 2023, Kremlin spokesperson [[Dmitry Peskov]] announced that [[Russia]] did not recognize the Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for President [[Vladimir Putin]] on account of [[War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine|war crimes in Ukraine]] and noted that Russia, like other countries which had not ratified the Rome Statute, did not recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC, saying "And accordingly, any decisions of this kind are null and void for the Russian Federation from the point of view of law."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Patil |first=Anushka |date=17 March 2023 |title=International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/17/world/russia-ukraine-putin-news |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>

[[State Duma]] speaker [[Vyacheslav Volodin]] wrote on [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]], "Yankees, hands off Putin!" calling the move evidence of Western "hysteria", and saying that "we regard any attacks on the President of the Russian Federation as aggression against our country".<ref name=":1" />

South African Foreign Minister [[Naledi Pandor]] criticized the ICC for not having what she called an "evenhanded approach" to all leaders responsible for violations of international law.<ref>{{cite news |title=South Africa Mulls Options After ICC's Putin Arrest Order |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/south-africa-mulls-options-after-icc-s-putin-arrest-order-/7025238.html |work=VOA News |date=28 March 2023}}</ref> South Africa, which failed in its obligation to arrest visiting Sudanese President [[Omar al-Bashir]] in June 2015, invited Vladimir Putin to the [[BRICS#Summits|15th BRICS Summit]] in Durban.<ref>{{cite news |title=There's a new dividing line for world leaders: Would you arrest Putin? |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/new-dividing-line-world-leaders-arrest-putin-rcna76471 |publisher=NBC News |date=25 March 2023}}</ref> On 19 July 2023, South Africa announced that "by mutual agreement" Putin would not attend the summit. Foreign Minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] attended in Putin's place.<ref name="Reuters-BRICS">{{cite news |title=South Africa says Putin agreed not to attend BRICS summit |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/south-africa-putin-will-not-attend-brics-summit-by-mutual-agreement-2023-07-19/ |work=Reuters |date=19 July 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Vladimir Putin in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on September 3, 2024 (2).jpg|thumb|Putin with Mongolian President [[Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh]] in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 3 September 2024]]
In the months following the arrest warrant for Putin being issued, Russia issued warrants for the arrest of multiple ICC officials, including the court's president [[Piotr Hofmański]] and its vice-president [[Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-international-criminal-court-icc-president-piotr-hofmanski-wanted-list/|title=Russia puts international court's top leadership on wanted list|website=Politico|date=25 September 2023|last=Chiappa|first=Claudia}}</ref>

In advance of a [[Mongolia–Russia relations|visit by Putin to Mongolia]] on 3 September 2024, the ICC stated that Mongolia was obligated to place Putin under arrest, due to [[Mongolia]] being a signatory of the Rome Statute of the ICC.<ref>{{cite news |last=Santos |first=Sofia Ferreira |date=30 August 2024 |title=Mongolia Obliged to Arrest Putin If He Visits – ICC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0e852r50x7o |access-date=30 August 2024 |work=BBC}}</ref> After failure to make the arrest, Mongolia was described by Ukraine as complicit in Putin's war crimes.<ref>{{cite news |title=Putin Evades Arrest in Mongolia |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/putin-evades-arrest-in-mongolia/104305828 |access-date=4 September 2024 |work=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=4 September 2024 |quote=The Ukrainian Government have (...) [claimed] this makes Mongolia complicit in Putin's war crimes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bennetts |first1=Marc |title=Vladimir Putin defies ICC Arrest Warrant on Mongolia Visit |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/vladimir-putin-icc-arrest-warrant-mongolia-gsnsdq3nb |access-date=4 September 2024 |work=[[The Times]] |date=3 September 2024 |quote=Kyiv said that Mongolia’s failure to execute the ICC warrant meant it was complicit in Putin’s crimes}}</ref> Following the visit and the refusal to arrest Putin, the Mongolia government said that the issue of energy relations is critical to the country and that "Mongolia has always maintained a policy of neutrality in all its diplomatic relations, as demonstrated in our statements of record to date."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jochecová |first=Ketrin |date=2024-09-03 |title=Sorry not sorry, says Mongolia after failure to arrest Putin |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/mongolia-failure-arrest-vladimir-putin-international-warrant-international-criminal-court/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=POLITICO}}</ref>