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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary said Thursday it will begin the
procedure of withdrawing from the world’s only permanent global
tribunal for war crimes and genocide.
“Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court,”
Gergely Gulyás, who is Prime Minister Viktor Orbán chief of
staff wrote in a brief statement. “The government will initiate
the withdrawal procedure on Thursday, in accordance with the
constitutional and international legal framework.”
The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu arrived in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, despite an
international arrest warrant against him over his conduct of the
war in the Gaza Strip.
Hungary’s government, led by right-wing populist Orbán, extended
the invitation to Netanyahu in November after the ICC, based in
the Hague, Netherlands, issued the warrant accusing him of
crimes against humanity.
Orbán, a close Netanyahu ally, has called the arrest warrant
“outrageously impudent” and “cynical.” Member countries of the
ICC, such as Hungary, are required to detain suspects facing a
warrant if they set foot on their soil, but the court has no way
to enforce that and relies on states to comply with its rulings.
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