{"id":1863,"date":"2025-08-20T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:42","slug":"icc-putin-arrest-warrant-counterproductive-mep-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/icc-putin-arrest-warrant-counterproductive-mep-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Putin arrest warrant \u2018counterproductive\u2019 \u2013 MEP (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western \u201clawfare\u201d against Russia undermines diplomatic efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict, Fernand Kartheiser has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The credibility of international legal institutions has been severely undermined by Western efforts to wage \u201clawfare\u201d<\/em> against Russia, a member of the European Parliament (MEP) has told RT.<\/p>\n

Luxembourger Fernand Kartheiser made the comments after Switzerland offered to host Ukraine peace talks and suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin would receive immunity from an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ICC announced the warrant in March 2023, alleging the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine. Russia has rejected the jurisdiction of the court, calling its decisions null and void.<\/p>\n

Kartheiser questioned the credibility of the warrant against Putin, insisting it was initially designed as part of a broader Western strategy to weaken Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had this diplomatic isolation. We had economic sanctions. We had military support for Ukraine. We had many ways to weaken Russia and one of those ways is lawfare,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the MEP recalled.<\/p>\n

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He argued that this strategy has proven \u201ccounterproductive for any diplomatic efforts to settle the conflict,\u201d<\/em> and pointed out that the ICC warrant is \u201cbasically not practicable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a huge problem with the credibility of international jurisdictions,\u201d<\/em> Kartheiser said, adding that \u201cwe should give it a thought and also stop to use lawfare as a weapon in this conflict.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The MEP also challenged the basis for the ICC\u2019s allegations. He noted that despite claims of thousands of children being abducted, Ukraine had provided Russia with a list of only 309 names during earlier peace talks in Istanbul.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that you can continue to argue that there has been a systematic abduction of Ukrainian children to Russia. So I think that there is an issue with the credibility also of the arrest warrant by the ICC,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

Kartheiser also told RT that Switzerland\u2019s proposal to host the summit was an attempt to restore its neutrality and argued that Ukraine should hold elections as Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s mandate as president has expired.<\/p>\n

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