The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government press conference. “It’s not up to us.” Ukraine asked Mexico to arrest Putin if he attends the Oct. 1 swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum. The request, in a statement from Ukraine’s Mexican embassy dated Aug. 7, pointed to an arrest warrant issued by the U.N.'s International Criminal Court (ICC).
Told ya’ll, zero chance we’d do it. Doesn’t matter what international agreement we signed, it’s not worth the risk. Sorry for signing that and not following through but asking us to arrest a head of state of a major superpower is too much.
I don’t think anyone’s surprised. I do wonder though, if Putin has the guts to show up even with this assurance.
That’s what I thought! And yet there were surprises to be had in some other comments section arguing that because Mexico signed an extradition agreement, we’d be forced to follow through somehow.
Probably something to do with Leon Trotsky
In Mexico City:
On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Spanish-born NKVD agent Ramón Mercader, who used an ice axe as a weapon. The operation was known within the NKVD as “Operation Utka” (Operation Duck).
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Why would they have to do that?
They are signatories of the ICC. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin so any signatory nations are supposed to attempt to apprehend him.