BUDAPEST - (KAP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to arrive in Hungary on Wednesday to meet with the nationalist prime minister there, despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the Gaza war.
Netanyahu's four-day visit to Budapest is a sign of his close relationship with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his growing hostility towards international institutions such as the International Criminal Court, of which Hungary is a member.
Orbán, a conservative populist and close Netanyahu ally, has vowed to disregard the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant and accused the world's top war crimes court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, of "interfering in an ongoing conflict for political reasons".
Members of Orbán's government have proposed that Hungary, which became a signatory to the court in 2001, withdraw from it. Currently, all countries in the 27-member European Union are signatories, and all members are obliged to detain suspects who are the subject of an arrest warrant if they enter their territory. However, the court relies on member states to enforce this obligation.
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