Moscow (EFE) , Vladimir Putin.
“It is necessary to introduce changes in the legislation that prohibit any activity of the CPI in the territory of our country and also study the responsibility for cooperating and supporting the CPI,” he wrote on his Telegram account.
Volodin, who as soon as the arrest warrant was issued described it as an “aggression” against Russia, also advocated signing bilateral agreements with friendly countries that contemplate “the mutual waiver of cooperation with the court in The Hague.”
In addition, he proposed that “the supreme commander”, that is, Putin, “has the right to take any action for the defense of Russian citizens in the event that international structures make decisions that contradict the norms of the Constitution of Russia.” ”.
Volodin discussed plans for legislation in the lower house of Parliament on Friday during a meeting with Putin in the Kremlin.
In turn, he recalled today that since the controversial 2020 referendum, the Russian Constitution includes a point that grants “priority” to national legislation over international ones.
“On Russian territory, the decisions of the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights and other puppet institutes that Washington uses for its own interests are not complied with,” he explained.
He recalled that the US at the time adopted a law that protects its military, so that none of them can be the subject of an arrest warrant from the CPI, and that it can even initiate a military intervention in the event that a US citizen sits before that court.
This Thursday the deputy head of the Russian Security Council and former president of the country, Dmitri Medvedev, warned that Putin’s eventual arrest would amount to a declaration of war on Russia.
Ukraine this week signed an agreement for the opening of a representative office of the CPI, which, according to the president, Volodimir Zelensky, “will allow international justice to be even more active in the investigation of the crimes of the Russian army.”
The court considers Putin “presumed responsible” for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children -a war crime for the CPI-, which has been denounced on numerous occasions by the Kiev authorities.
