According to Gergely Gulyás, it was not a legal decision, but a political one, which discredits the International Criminal Court.
Israel on Thursday objected to a statement by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's office that Berlin would arrest and deport Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court executes the arrest warrant, Hit radio noted.
When asked whether Berlin would implement a possible ICC arrest warrant, German spokesman Steffen Hebestreit responded in an interview
Naturally. Yes, we follow the law”.
Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, condemned the statement in an earlier tweet on X. "This is outrageous!" he wrote, adding that "the public statement that Israel has a right to self-defense loses credibility if our hands are tied as soon as we defend ourselves."
According to the ambassador, he is the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
equates the democratic government with Hamas, thereby demonizing and delegitimizing Israel and the Jewish people”.
As he puts it: "He has completely lost his moral compass. Germany has a responsibility to reset this compass”.
Gergely Gulyás described the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court as unacceptable in Thursday's Government Information.
According to him, a political decision was made, not a legal one, which invalidates the International Criminal Court. He indicated: Although Hungary ratified the convention, it did not make it a part of Hungarian law, thus
In Hungary, no measures regarding this can be implemented today."
Featured image: Prime Minister Gergely Gulyás at the Government Info press conference in the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office building on May 23, 2024. MTI/Koszticsák Solid
