Thank you for the question.
First of all, again, thank you to Canada for supporting with generous contributions the work of the ICC and the prosecutor's office there to work on the crimes of sexual violence committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
Having said that, turning to your question about the arrest warrants for Putin and Ms. Lvova-Belova, I think it's a historic, ground-breaking decision and one long awaited. It's a shame that so many violations of international law and so many war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed before such arrest warrants were issued.
Now I think our concern needs to be on how these warrants will be executed and whether they will be executed. The 123 countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute should abide by the rules and execute these arrest warrants should Putin and Ms. Lvova-Belova step foot on the territories of these countries, but at the same time, we have many past examples of arrest warrants being issued against political leaders but not being executed.
I think it's a matter of principle for the whole of the international community, all of the signatories of the ICC, to be on the same page and with the same understanding that there must be not just the formal issuance of an arrest warrant but that there must be an execution. It's the next step towards which we must work, because the criminals must bear full responsibility for their crimes.
