Mongolia ignored the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin as it rolled out the red carpet to receive him today.
The Russian president should, in theory, have been handcuffed as he arrived – but the Mongolian government said earlier that it was difficult to arrest him due to the country’s position of energy dependence on Moscow (see 17.35 post).
Mr Putin was welcomed in the main square of Ulaanbaatar by an honour guard as a crowd of people watched behind temporary barriers.
He and Mongolian leader Ukhnaa Khurelsukh later laid a wreath at a monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, visited a school curated by a Russian economic university and attended a reception ceremony where Mr Putin gave a toast.
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