{"id":568466,"date":"2023-04-02T12:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/war-crimes-warrant-for-putin-could-complicate-ukraine-peace\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:32:54","slug":"war-crimes-warrant-for-putin-could-complicate-ukraine-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/war-crimes-warrant-for-putin-could-complicate-ukraine-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"#War crimes warrant for Putin could complicate Ukraine peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 An international arrest warrant<\/a> for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of the man whose country invaded Ukraine<\/a> facing justice, but it complicates efforts to end that war in peace talks.<\/p>\n

Both justice and peace app<\/a>ear to be only remote possibilities today, and the conflicting relationship between the two is a quandary at the heart of a March 17 decision by the International Criminal Court to seek the Russian leader’s arrest.<\/p>\n

Judges in The Hague found \u201creasonable grounds to believe\u201d that Putin and his commissioner for children\u2019s rights were responsible for war crimes, specifically the unlawful deportation and unlawful transfer of children<\/a> from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.<\/p>\n

As unlikely as Putin sitting in a Hague courtroom seems now, other leaders have faced justice in international courts.<\/p>\n

Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a driving force behind the Balkan wars of the 1990s, went on trial for war crimes, including genocide, at a United Nations tribunal in The Hague after he lost power. He died in his cell in 2006 before a verdict could be reached.<\/p>\n

Serbia, which wants European Union membership but has maintained close ties to Russia, is one of the countries that has criticized the ICC’s action<\/a>. The warrants \u201cwill have bad political consequences\u201d and create \u201ca great reluctance to talk about peace (and) about truce\u201d in Ukraine, populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said.<\/p>\n

Others see consequences for Putin, and for anyone judged guilty of war crimes, as the primary desired outcome of international action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be no escape for the perpetrator and his henchmen,” European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen said Friday in a speech to mark the one-year anniversary of the liberation of Bucha<\/a>, the Ukraine town that saw some of the worst atrocities in the war. \u201cWar criminals will be held accountable for their deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hungary did not join the other 26 EU members in signing a resolution in support of the ICC warrant for Putin. The government’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, said Hungarian authorities would not arrest Putin if he were to enter the country..<\/p>\n

He called the warrants \u201cnot the most fortunate because they lead toward escalation and not toward peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin appears to have a strong grip on power, and some analysts suspect the the warrant hanging over him could provide an incentive to prolong the fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrest warrant for Putin might undermine efforts to reach a peace deal in Ukraine,\u201d Daniel Krcmaric, an associate professor of political science<\/a> at Northwestern University, said in emailed comments to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

One potential way of easing the way to peace talks could be for the United Nations Security Council to call on the International Criminal Court to suspend the Ukraine investigation for a year, which is allowed under Article 16 of the Rome Statute treaty<\/a> that created the court.<\/p>\n

But that appears unlikely, said Krcmaric, whose book \u201cThe Justice Dilemma,\u201d deals with the tension between seeking justice and pursuing a negotiated end to conflicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Western democracies would have to worry about public opinion costs if they made the morally questionable decision to trade justice for peace in such an explicit fashion,\u201d he said, adding that Ukraine also is unlikely to support such a move.<\/p>\n

Russia immedia<\/a>tely rejected the warrants. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow doesn\u2019t recognize the ICC and considers its decisions \u201clegally void.\u201d And Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia\u2019s Security Council, which is chaired by Putin, suggested the ICC headquarters on the Netherlands’ coastline could become a target for a Russian missile strike.<\/p>\n

Alexander Baunov, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment, observed in a commentary that the arrest warrant for Putin amounted to \u201can invitation to the Russian elite to abandon Putin\u201d that could erode his support.<\/p>\n

While welcoming the warrants for Putin and his commissioner for children\u2019s rights, rights groups also urged the international community not to forget the pursuit of justice in other conflicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ICC warrant for Putin reflects an evolving and multifaceted justice effort that is needed elsewhere in the world,\u201d Human Rights Watch associate international justice director Balkees Jarrah said in a statement. \u201cSimilar justice initiatives are needed elsewhere to ensure that the rights of victims globally \u2014 whether in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, or Palestine \u2014 are respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n

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