Mexican President Andres Obrador rejected Ukraineʼs request to arrest Putin if he comes to the inauguration of the new president Claudia Sheinbaum.
Reuters writes about it.
"We canʼt do that. Itʼs not up to us," Obrador said at a press conference.
Earlier, the Embassy of Ukraine in Mexico City emphasized that Mexico recognizes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and therefore must execute the warrant for Putinʼs arrest if he does come. The country ratified the Rome Statute in 2005.
Scheinbaumʼs team invited Putin to the inauguration, saying it had sent a "diplomatic message" to all countries with which Mexico maintains diplomatic relations. It is not yet known whether Putin has accepted the invitation. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was also invited there.
- On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin and Childrenʼs Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. They are suspected of illegally deporting Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, which is a war crime. Putin and Lvova-Belova should be arrested as official suspects in countries that have ratified the Rome Statute. That is, 123 countries are closed to them.
- After issuing the warrant, Putin visited only Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, China, the DPRK, and Kazakhstan, which did not ratify the statute. Issuing a warrant from the International Space Station should ideally make Putin unmanageable.