Issuing an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin will have negative consequences and will only prolong the war in Ukraine, Serbia's president said Sunday.
Issuing an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin will have negative consequences and will only prolong theThe International Criminal Court issued the warrant for the Russian leader on Friday, accusing him of war crimes. The ICC accused him of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine during Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbour that started almost 13 months ago.
"My question is now that you have accused him of the biggest war crimes, who are you going to talk to now?" Vucic said. Asked if Putin would be arrested if he comes to Serbia, Vucic said that it is "a pointless question, because it is clear that as long as the conflict continues, Putin has nowhere to go."
Vucic, a strong opponent of international war crimes courts, was a ranking official of an ultranationalist party whose leader Vojislav Seselj and several other members ended up in the international war crimes court on trials for crimes they committed during the wars in the 1990s.
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