Ulaanbaatar: Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Mongolia on his go to. There isn’t a indication that the host nation will arrest him. Putin’s go to is his first to a member nation of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom for the reason that court docket issued a warrant for his arrest about 18 months in the past. Forward of his go to, Ukraine had known as on Mongolia at hand over Putin to the Hague court docket. On the similar time, the European Union had expressed concern that Mongolia could not execute the warrant.

Putin’s spokesman stated final week that the Kremlin shouldn’t be apprehensive. His go to is placing Mongolia in hassle. Members of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice are obliged to detain suspects if an arrest warrant is issued. Nonetheless, Mongolia is a rustic that’s extremely depending on Russia for gas and a few of its electrical energy. The court docket has no mechanism to implement its warrant.

The Russian chief was greeted at a ceremony held on the capital’s most important sq. by an honor guard wearing shiny purple and blue uniforms within the model of the non-public guard of Genghis Khan, the thirteenth century ruler who based the Mongol Empire. He and Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh climbed the red-carpeted stairs of the federal government palace and bowed earlier than a statue of Genghis Khan earlier than getting into the federal government constructing for his or her conferences. The Worldwide Prison Courtroom has accused Putin of being liable for the kidnapping of youngsters from Ukraine, the place preventing has raged for 2 years. On Monday, the European Union expressed concern that the Worldwide Prison Courtroom’s warrant wouldn’t be executed and stated it had shared its considerations with Mongolian authorities.