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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Staff and agencies in Yerevan

Armenia formally joins international criminal court in snub to Russia

Armenian lawmakers voting to join the international criminal court in October 2023.
Armenian lawmakers voting to join the ICC in October 2023. Yerevan believes Moscow has failed to restrain Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Photograph: Hayk Baghdasaryan/AP

Armenia has formally joined the international criminal court (ICC), officials said, a move which traditional ally Moscow has denounced as unfriendly.

The Hague-based court in March issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over the war in Ukraine and the illegal deportation of children to Russia.

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