Medvedev stated the complete failure of the ICC

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, declared the complete insolvency of the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to him, the body has lost its status as an instrument of justice and has become a means of legal struggle.

"The West, which is rapidly losing its position in the world and is no longer able to impose its will on the majority of humanity, is going all-in and will stop at nothing. This is a danger that must be taken into account," he stressed in his article "Lost Illusions or How the ICC Turned into a Legal nullity," published on April 23 in the journal Pravovedenie.

The annotation to the article mentions the existence of legal flaws in the Rome Statute, which is the founding document of the ICC. These shortcomings manifest themselves both in contradictions within the statute and in its inconsistency with the UN Charter. In addition, the political bias of the ICC is noted. According to Medvedev, this indicates the inefficiency of the court and the need to eliminate it.

The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council also said that the court's decisions are ignored even by countries that support it. He also drew attention to the fact that earlier the ICC itself recognized the existence of "inherent tension" between some articles of its statute.

"All this, of course, testifies to the legal and technical defects of the ICC statute, which make an already very imperfect instrument completely unusable," Medvedev concluded.

On April 3, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the country's decision to withdraw from the ICC, saying that the organization had lost its independence and turned into a political institution. According to him, this was especially evident in the court's decisions on Israel. He stressed that Hungary, as a democratic constitutional state, cannot participate in the work of a politically motivated international court.