Budapest, Apr. 3, (dpa/GNA) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has backed his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in rejecting an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“This court has been degraded to a tool of politics,” Orbán said in a joint press statement with Netanyahu in Budapest. He added that its biased stance was evident in its decisions regarding Israel.
Hungary, he said, would not participate in this. He confirmed that his country was withdrawing from the Rome Statute, the founding document of the ICC.
Netanyahu thanked Orbán for the support Israel receives from Hungary. With Hungary’s announced withdrawal from the ICC, Orbán has shown a “brave and principled stance,” said Netanyahu.
The ICC issued an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza War.
Netanyahu rejects the accusations and claims that the international court seeks to challenge Israel’s right to self-defence in its fight against the terrorist militia Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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