Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Hungary on April 2, AFP quotes his office as saying, defying an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
During his visit, Netanyahu is set to hold talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and other senior Hungarian officials before returning to Israel on April 6.
Orban extended an invitation to Netanyahu despite the ICC’s arrest warrant issued last year. One day after the ICC decision in November, Netanyahu thanked Orban for his show of what he called “moral clarity” in extending the invitation.
Hungary signed the Rome Statute, the international treaty that created the ICC, in 1999 and ratified it two years later during Orban’s first term in office.