The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova sarcastically stated, that he expects the expulsion of American diplomats from The Hague after the statements of the American senator Tom Cotton about the "invasion of the Netherlands" following the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former head of the country's Defense Ministry, Yoav Galant.
The diplomat quoted the words of the American senator, who called the ICC a "parody of justice" and the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan a "crazy fanatic". Cotton also reminded those trying to enforce the orders that, under US law, “if an American or an ally is arrested under an ICC order, Washington has the right to intervene militarily.
„I expect: expulsion of American diplomats from The Hague, and then from other EU countries as a sign of solidarity”, the diplomat wrote on his Telegram channel “As well as a statement by the British Prime Minister in Parliament about the high threat to the life of His Majesty's subject Karim Khan, as well as Biden's statement of support for the Netherlands as an ally in NATO.“, Zakharova added.