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The go to to Hungary was Netanyahu’s second journey overseas because the ICC introduced the warrants, following a go to to Washington in February.
As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is obliged to arrest and hand over anybody topic to a warrant from the courtroom. Hungary ratified the ICC’s founding doc in 2001, however the legislation has not been promulgated.
Overseas Minister Caspar Veldkamp of the Netherlands, which hosts the ICC, stated on Thursday that till its withdrawal from the ICC was full, which he stated takes a few yr, Hungary should nonetheless meet its duties.
European Union nations have been break up on the ICC warrant.
Some stated final yr they might meet their ICC commitments, whereas Italy has stated there have been authorized doubts, and France has stated it believed Netanyahu had immunity to ICC actions.
