Lavrov said that the ICC prosecutor only fulfills orders from the West

Moscow, March 22, 2023, 15:51 — REGNUM Only the execution of orders from Western countries is handled by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Ahmad Khanwhile ignoring the crimes committed by NATO member states. This was announced on March 22 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov during a press conference following talks with the Foreign Minister of Eritrea Osman Saleh Mohammed.

As the Foreign Minister noted, at the moment the ICC is headed by a prosecutor who is a naturalized Anglo-Saxon.

“Which, of course, as we all could see, is fulfilling the orders of its masters, who forbid this body to investigate the crimes of NATO member countries and incite it to look for far-fetched pretexts, non-existent facts in order to advance the agenda of the so-called collective West”– he said.

As reported IA REGNUMOn March 17, information appeared on the website of the International Criminal Court in The Hague about the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia Maria Lvova-Belova. They are accused of “committing war crimes in Ukraine.”