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How much power does the ICC have to enforce arrest warrants?
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How much power does the ICC have to enforce arrest warrants?
The International Criminal Court's remit of power is limited and strongly depends on the cooperation of member states, legal experts told Euronews.
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How much power does the ICC have to enforce arrest warrants?
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What do Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu have in common?
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Well, they are both serving heads of state subject to arrest warrants from the International
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Criminal Court.
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In theory, ICC arrest warrants are legally binding on states that have ratified the Rome
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Statute.
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In practice, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was able to travel to Hungary in
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early April.
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He was not arrested despite Hungary being a current member of the ICC.
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So what is the ICC's remit of power?
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For the ICC to succeed, it needs the support of governments because its powers are limited.
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The power it has is for judges to take decisions.
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But those decisions need to be enforced by the governments that belong to the ICC and
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set this court up to do exactly what it's doing.
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For some critics, the fact that ICC arrest warrants can be flouted renders them worthless.
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However, legal experts told Euroverify that they can still act as a pressure mechanism.
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Since an ICC arrest warrant was placed on Putin, he has avoided travelling to ICC signatories,
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with the exception of Mongolia, which did not execute the warrant.
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Despite this legal failure by Mongolia, the response offered by the ICC has been qualified
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as weak.
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They could suspend Mongolia's, you know, voting rights within that body, suspend its ability
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to nominate candidates to the ICC bench, they have a Mongolian judge.
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But so far, actually, this body of ICC members has been really reluctant, I'm sorry to say,
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to take measures.
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Really it doesn't go beyond just saying, okay, we've seen the decision from the judges and,
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you know, we note that there hasn't been compliance.
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