Any actual lawyers know whether diplomatic immunity would apply in this situation? Wikipedia says it protects visiting officials from prosecution by the host country, but with an ICC warrant Mongolia wouldn’t be the country bringing the prosecution, or does that not matter?
^((he said, bracing himself for the inevitable guesses from armchair lawyers))
>Putin arrives in Mongolia, a member of the ICC that issued an arrest warrant for him
Mongolia is a means to set a precedent – to expose the unenforceable nature of ICC warrant and allow other states to follow suit.
*Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.*
– Honore de Balzac
Would be pretty awesome and ballsy but Mongolia stands to lose way more than what they would gain if they do the funny.
Not saying that I want him to get in and out scott free, but I am understanding of the mongolians if they choose to not die
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Any actual lawyers know whether diplomatic immunity would apply in this situation? Wikipedia says it protects visiting officials from prosecution by the host country, but with an ICC warrant Mongolia wouldn’t be the country bringing the prosecution, or does that not matter?
^((he said, bracing himself for the inevitable guesses from armchair lawyers))
>Putin arrives in Mongolia, a member of the ICC that issued an arrest warrant for him
Mongolia is a means to set a precedent – to expose the unenforceable nature of ICC warrant and allow other states to follow suit.
*Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.*
– Honore de Balzac
Would be pretty awesome and ballsy but Mongolia stands to lose way more than what they would gain if they do the funny.
Not saying that I want him to get in and out scott free, but I am understanding of the mongolians if they choose to not die