{"id":206828,"date":"2025-10-17T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:48:09","slug":"trump-to-meet-zelensky-at-white-house-after-productive-call-with-putin-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206828\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to meet Zelensky at White House after &#8216;productive&#8217; call with Putin &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary still obligated to arrest people under ICC warrant &#8211; including Putinpublished at 14:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:32 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4773b826-995a-45f7-aea3-94ed971756b3.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Anna Holligan<br \/>Reporting from The Hague<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"close up of Vladimir Putin in a black suit and white shirt, looking slightly to the left, Behind him, a Russian flag with the blue and white parts visible\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b0e8735a-a0b3-4e60-bcb0-3e7cbf1bd2b6.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungary\u2019s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) will take effect on 2 June 2026, a year after Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government formally notified the United Nations of its decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the court\u2019s rules, Hungary remains bound by the Rome Statute until withdrawal takes effect \u2014 meaning it would still be obliged to arrest persons under ICC warrant, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, should they enter its territory before June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>      For context: The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin over<br \/>\nwar crimes allegations in March 2023, focusing its claims on the unlawful<br \/>\ndeportation of children from Ukraine since the start of the war. Russia has<br \/>\ndenied the allegations and labelled them as \u201coutrageous\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Budapest has accused the Hague-based court of being politically motivated. The move makes Hungary the first EU member state to leave the ICC since it was founded in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties, which oversees the ICC, said it \u201cregrets this turn of events,\u201d adding that the decision \u201cclouds our shared quest for justice and weakens efforts to fight impunity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ICC has faced repeated challenges enforcing such warrants. South Africa failed to detain Sudan\u2019s Omar al-Bashir during a 2015 visit, despite a warrant for war crimes and genocide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mongolia and Hungary also declined to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during recent visits, prompting formal findings of \u201cnon-cooperation\u201d by ICC judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, there were no further sanctions or penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court relies on member states to carry out arrests, as it has no enforcement mechanism of its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Human rights observers note that failures to act on ICC warrants \u2014 often citing diplomatic immunity or domestic political concerns \u2014 undermine the court\u2019s authority and embolden others accused of grave international crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary still obligated to arrest people under ICC warrant &#8211; including Putinpublished at 14:32 BST 14:32 BST Anna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-206828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}