The CPI was “a respectable initiative, but what we have seen lately – and the accusation against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the most sad example of it – is that it has become a political body,” said the interior minister.
The Hungarian government has announced its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (CPI), as reported by the Minister of the Interior, Gergely Gulyás, via a message on Facebook.
The Hungarian executive power will initiate the procedure “in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework,” said the minister, in a decision that marks an important change in the foreign policy of the Middle -European country.
The CPI was “a respectable initiative, but what we have seen recently – and the accusation against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the most sad example – is that it has become a political organism,” Gulyás told the MTI press agency.
The measure occurs after the arrival in Budapest of Netanyahu, during his first visit to a state part of the Rome statute since the ICC in November 2024 published an arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes and against humanity in the Gazstrook.
The Ultra -Nationalist Government of Viktor Orbán invited Netanyahu to visit Budapest and has repeated that he would not carry out the arrest warrant that claims that the decisions of the ICC “are not being recognized” in the Hungarian Criminal Code.
Orbán, near Netanyahu fellow union, the moment the detention warrant of “shameless and cynical” described.
Moreover, the Hungarian government argued that the court established in The Hague “has the right to process Netanyahu, with which Israel acts in legitimate defense against the attacks of the Hamas Islamist Group.
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Hungary has the “legal obligation” to implement the decisions of the International Criminal Court (CPI), said that a court spokesperson with regard to the visit to the land of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, weighs for an arrest for alleged war crimes and humanity.
“The court depends on the states to make their decisions. This is not only a legal obligation for the court under the statute of Rome, but also a responsibility for the other states parties,” said an ICC spokesperson, who has not yet commented on the announcement of the Hungarian government to withdraw from this court, the press.
He has warned that “it does not correspond to the states that unilaterally determine the firmness of judicial decisions of the court.
Source: EITB
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