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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of not wanting Russian President Vladimir Putin to be held accountable for invading Ukraine. The

EU: China defends Putin not to be responsible for Ukraine

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of not wanting Russian President Vladimir Putin to be held accountable for invading Ukraine.

The leader of American diplomacy made these statements in response to the meeting of the presidents of China and Russia, which took place on Monday in Moscow, at which Beijing’s proposal to end the war was discussed.

“The fact that President Xi visited Russia days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin shows that China does not want to hold him accountable for the atrocities in Ukraine,” Blinken criticized.

In the document, the US acknowledges that the Ukrainian authorities are responsible for human rights violations such as arbitrary executions and torture, but clarifies that “they are not comparable to the scale of violations by Russia.”

The 2022 State Department report also cites Iran for cracking down on protests, China for “genocide” in Xinjiang, “authoritarian governments” in Cuba and Venezuela, and others.

Xi who chose Russia for his first trip abroad since the start of his third termhopes that the visit, which ends on Wednesday, will be “fruitful”. He added that good relations between the two powers not only benefit Beijing and Moscow, but also contribute to “the progress of the whole world,” official Russian news agencies said.

chinese president did not mention Ukraine directly in his first statementsbut promised that his government would side with Russia to defend a system “based on international law” and the UN Charter “in a world far from peace”.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened on Monday criminal case against judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and chief prosecutor this court in retaliation for arrest warrants handed down on Friday for the alleged forced deportation of Ukrainian children and directed against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The authorities believe that the judges Tomoko Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godines According to a statement from the Investigative Committee obtained by Interfax, they were able to commit a crime under the Russian Criminal Code by calling into question the protection theoretically enjoyed by a head of state like Putin.

They also point to the TPI prosecutor, Karim Khan, for allegedly exposing an innocent person, as well as pointing out a protected foreign representative. Khan launched an investigation determine whether war crimes have been committed or against humanity as part of an offensive against Ukraine.

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