EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini announced on Thursday 17 November that she regretted the Russian Federation’s decision to withdraw its signature from and not become a member of the Statute of Rome establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), following the signing by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, of a decree to this effect on 16 November.
Russia signed the Statute of Rome on 13 September 2000 and "the European Union has...