The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has announced an appeal to the head of the Department for Europe and Africa of the Mongolian Foreign Ministry, Gankhuurai Battungalag, who arrived in kyiv at the request of the Ukrainian side, the press service of the Ukrainian department reports.
“The Mongolian side is deeply disappointed with Ukraine over Mongolia’s refusal, as a signatory to the Rome Statute, to comply with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Putin during his stay in the country,” – the message said.
kyiv promised not to leave the incident without an adequate response and to take the decision into account in further actions to develop bilateral relations and when Ukraine develops a position on supporting Mongolia in international formats. At the same time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expressed hope that Mongolia will take “effective measures to restore the constructive nature of traditionally friendly relations between Ukraine and Mongolia.”
Mongolia signed the ICC’s founding document, the Rome Statute. It became the first participant in the trial that Putin visited a year and a half after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president. Mongolian authorities later explained that they adhere to neutrality.
Ukrainian authorities criticized Mongolia’s decision: Vladimir Zelensky He blamed the entire world for what happened, and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called it a “serious blow.”
Comments from the Ukrainian side by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov He called it rude.
“Let us not forget that even after the visit of the President of India Narendra Modi Regarding Russia, Zelensky personally said that Modi had dealt a fatal blow to the settlement efforts. However, the Indian Prime Minister later travelled to kyiv and I am sure that he explained to Zelensky that decent people do not behave like that. At least I hope so,” Lavrov said.
