The Rome Statute of the ICC came into force in Armenia on February 1. Under it, Yerevan is obliged to detain and hand over to The Hague those accused of war crimes.
“Of course, it is very important here to receive certain assurances from our Armenian partners,” Peskov said, commenting on the possibility of Putin’s arrest in Armenia.
The day before, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan refused to give guarantees that Putin would not be arrested in the country, in case of a visit, under an ICC warrant issued last March. “In our country, it is not the prime minister who decides who to arrest and who not to arrest,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
