Kaja Kallas has cited an ICC arrest warrant for the Russian president ahead of upcoming talks with his US counterpart
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that it is “not nice” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his US counterpart Donald Trump for peace talks in Hungary.
The two leaders announced plans to meet in Budapest after they spoke for over two hours by phone on Thursday.
Speaking to journalists ahead of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday, Kallas said that she would be unhappy to see “a person with an arrest warrant put by the ICC… coming to a European [sic EU] country.”
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March 2023, over allegations that children were unlawfully deported from Donbass. Moscow does not recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction but has said that children were evacuated from the war zone for their own safety and to be safely reunited with their families.
While Hungary is a signatory to the Rome Statute that governs the ICC’s activities, Budapest has guaranteed passage to the Russian president.
Speaking to TASS on Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that the “aggressive Western European community” was seeking to “derail any peaceful aspirations” through “active subversive actions.”
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