Russia won't ratify International Criminal Court's Statute

Russia does not intend to ratify the Rome Statute, the basic document establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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Wednesday, 16.11.2016.

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Russia won't ratify International Criminal Court's Statute
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Russia won't ratify International Criminal Court's Statute

The country's Foreign Ministry will now inform the UN secretary-general of the decision, according to the same source.

TASS is reporting that the Rome Statute (the ICC Charter) was developed with Russia’s participation and adopted by the UN Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries in 1998, entering into force in 2002 and starting to operate in 2003. Russia signed the document in 2000 but did not ratify it.

Putin's decision came in the wake of the court's report, published on November 14, which said that "Russia's annexation of Crimea was an international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine" - something that Moscow denies.

RT is reporting that the ICC's Rome Statute established genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression as "four core international crimes," and that with Moscow's decision, the court's jurisdiction now "does not apply to Russia, as well as the United States, China, Israel, Ukraine and a number of other countries."

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the ICC "has not lived up to expectations and failed to become a genuinely independent judicial body.”

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