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Putin to travel to Kyrgyzstan in first known trip abroad since ICC arrest warrant

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo Credit: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo Credit: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo Credit: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo Credit: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov

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The presidential administration of the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan said that Vladimir Putin will go there on Thursday. This will be the Russian president’s first known journey overseas since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.

Since the beginning of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Putin has only sometimes been abroad, and it is unknown if he has ever left the country since the ICC issued a warrant for his arrest in March on suspicion of forcibly removing hundreds of children from Ukraine. The Kremlin rejects these accusations.

Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation, will pay an official visit to the Kyrgyz Republic on October 12 of this year, the Kyrgyz presidential administration announced in a post on its website.

Although Putin and Japarov agreed in May to visit Kyrgyzstan, the Kremlin has yet to formally announce that the Russian president will go there on Thursday.

The third Belt and Road Forum will be held in Beijing the following week, and the Russian president is scheduled to attend. The International Criminal Court (ICC), created to try war crimes, has neither Kyrgyzstan nor China as members.

Moscow has responded by opening a criminal case against the ICC prosecutor and the judges who granted the order, denying the accusations made by the ICC and claiming that the warrant was proof of Western animosity toward Russia.

SUMMIT ON CIS

According to the Kyrgyz presidential office, Putin will also participate in celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of an air base in Kant, home to the 999th Air Base of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Separately, the presidential office of Kyrgyzstan said on Tuesday that Nikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, had informed Japarov that he would not be attending a CIS meeting in Bishkek on Friday. In a phone call, Pashinyan reportedly informed Japarov that he could not attend owing to “several circumstances.”

After the Soviet Union fell in 1991, many post-Soviet countries came together to establish the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which comprises, among others, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. According to Japarov’s office, Putin intended to go to the conference. Relations between Russia and Armenia have been severely strained due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Armenia’s decision to submit to the ICC’s jurisdiction.

As Armenia’s neighbor Azerbaijan retook Nagorno-Karabakh last month—an area controlled for three decades by ethnic Armenians, most of whom have fled—Armenia has also accused Russia of standing by.

Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, backed out of a meeting with Pashinyan arranged by the EU last week, at which Brussels underlined its support for Armenia. On Tuesday, Pashinyan stated that preparations were being made for a meeting with Azerbaijan’s president to discuss a lasting peace agreement.


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