(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, APR 3 - Hungary's government announced
Thursday that it would withdraw from the International Criminal
Court (ICC), just before Prime Minister Viktor Orban was to
receive his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu despite an
ICC arrest warrant against him. Orban extended an invitation to
Netanyahu last November, saying Hungary would not execute the
warrant, a day after the ICC issued the arrest warrant against
the Israeli premier over alleged war crimes in Gaza. The
announcement comes after Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early
Thursday on his first trip to Europe since the start of Israel's
war against Hamas in Gaza in 2023. "Hungary exits the
International Criminal Court," Orban's chief of staff Gergely
Gulyas posted on Facebook. (ANSA-AFP).
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