09/10/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 9 October, the European Union lamented the fact that Tajikistan, a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), had failed to fulfil its obligations to execute the court’s arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for international crimes. The latter was in Tajikistan for a summit with the five leaders of the Central Asian region. In a statement published by the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU expressed its “strongest” support for the efforts aiming to ensure “full accountability for all crimes under international law [and] human rights violations and abuses stemming from the Russian war of aggression”. The EU thus continues to support the investigations being conducted by the Prosecutor of the ICC in Ukraine and is calling on all States to cooperate. (PLD)