The US on Tuesday suggested Mongolia to emphasise its assist for Ukraine’s sovereignty in discussions with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who obtained a crimson carpet welcome on a state go to to the nation, a transfer that was extensively criticized resulting from a failure to arrest him beneath a warrant from the Worldwide Prison Court docket, TURAN’s Washington correspondent studies.
“[A]s we now have mentioned, we don’t consider any nation ought to give Putin a platform to advertise his struggle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine,” State Division’s spokesperson Matthew Miller informed a each day briefing when responding to TURAN’s questions.
“We do anticipate Mongolia to stick to its dedication and its assist for the ideas of the UN Constitution, together with sovereignty and territorial integrity, and convey that these ideas should be upheld all over the world,” Miller added.
On the identical time, the speskerson went on to acknowledge Mongolia’s place between two main neighbors. “We perceive the place that Mongolia is in, sandwiched between two a lot bigger neighbors, however we do assume it’s vital that they proceed to assist the rule of legislation all over the world,” he concluded.
The ICC warrant accuses Putin of illegally deporting lots of of youngsters from Ukraine. Regardless of ratifying the Rome Statute of the ICC, Mongolia has refused to execute the warrant as authorities in Ulaanbaatar defined their stance by citing the nation’s dependence on Russian vitality merchandise.
