Ruling party official: Georgia among 38 countries that applied to ICC to investigate Russia’s war crimes, resulting in arrest warrant for Putin

Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Sunday said Georgia was among 38 countries that had applied to the International Criminal Court in Hague to investigate war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, which had resulted in the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In his social media post, Mdinaradze noted that many countries had not joined the appeal, including Moldova, and stressed that the Georgian Government had co-authored the appeal, “a week after the war began” [in Ukraine], and “these very days the protest rallies were held in Tbilisi claiming that Georgian authorities were not allegedly supporting Ukraine and Ukrainian side recalled its ambassador from Georgia on these grounds”.

Georgia has been among 22 countries that have “fully adjusted” the country’s legal framework for cooperation with the ICC and have been part of the Rome Statute treaty, unlike 16 European Union member countries, as well as Ukraine, the United States and Russia, which have not yet created a legal framework for procedural cooperation with the Court, the GD official stressed.