“GET PUTIN OUT OF HERE”
Genghis Khan Sq. was decked out on Tuesday with enormous Mongolian and Russian flags for Putin’s first go to to the nation in 5 years.
A day earlier, a small protest had gathered there, with a handful of demonstrators holding an indication demanding “Get warfare felony Putin out of right here”.
One other protest deliberate for Tuesday was prevented by tight safety from getting anyplace close to the Russian chief.
They as a substitute gathered round a block from the Monument for the Politically Repressed, which honours those that suffered below Mongolia’s decades-long Soviet-backed communist regime.
Putin’s go to is being held to mark the eighty fifth anniversary of a decisive victory towards Imperial Japan by Mongolian and Soviet forces.
Forward of the journey, Putin pointed to a lot of “promising financial and industrial initiatives” between the 2 international locations in an interview with Mongolian newspaper Unuudur shared by the Kremlin.
Amongst these was the development of the Trans-Mongolian gasoline pipeline linking China and Russia, he mentioned.
The Russian president additionally mentioned he was “fascinated by pursuing substantive work” in direction of a trilateral summit between himself, Mongolian and Chinese language leaders.
“A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE”
Mongolia’s authorities has not commented on the calls to arrest Putin.
However a spokesman for President Khurelsukh took to social media on Sunday to disclaim stories that the ICC had despatched a letter asking it to execute the warrant when he visits.
Russia doesn’t recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC.
And Amnesty Worldwide warned on Monday that Mongolia’s failure to arrest Putin may additional undermine the ICC’s legitimacy, whereas emboldening the ex-KGB spy, in energy for nearly 1 / 4 of a century.
“President Putin is a fugitive from justice,” Altantuya Batdorj, government director of Amnesty Worldwide Mongolia, mentioned in an announcement.
“Any journey to an ICC member state that doesn’t finish in arrest will encourage President Putin’s present plan of action and should be seen as a part of a strategic effort to undermine the ICC’s work.”
