Ivan Evair Saldana
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 8, 2024, p. 10
The Ukrainian embassy in Mexico yesterday called on the country’s government to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from attending Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s inauguration on October 1 as a guest.
In a statement, which also confirmed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was invited to the inauguration ceremony, the diplomatic mission reminded the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the International Criminal Court (ICC) – of which Mexico is a party – issued an arrest warrant against Putin in 2023, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of Ukrainian children.
We trust that the Mexican government would comply in any case with the international arrest warrant by handing the aforementioned man over to the United Nations judicial body in The Hague.
he points out.
The embassy stressed that it trusts that Mexico recognizes that “Putin is a war criminal, as stated in an arrest warrant on suspicion of kidnapping and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia, issued by the International Criminal Court, whose jurisdiction Mexico recognizes.
This shameful crime will be one of the many reasons why Putin, along with the rest of Russia’s military-political leadership, will one day have to face justice.
he added.
kyiv acknowledged that the Mexican government invited representatives from all countries with which it maintains diplomatic ties.
