What to Know About Putin’s Planned Visit to Mongolia Amid ICC Arrest Warrant

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is scheduled to visit Mongolia next week, the Kremlin said on Thursday, despite the Central Asian country’s membership in the International Criminal Court, which issued a warrant for his arrest last year.

Mr. Putin plans to visit the country on Sept. 3 on the invitation of Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, the president of Mongolia, to commemorate the 85th anniversary of a joint military victory, the Kremlin said in a statement. It will be the Russian president’s first trip to an I.C.C. member nation since March 2023, when the court accused him of war crimes in Ukraine and issued a warrant for his arrest.

As part of their membership in the I.C.C., countries are bound by international law to arrest people for whom the court has issued arrest warrants (though that requirement is not always observed).

Here is what to know about the trip.

Will Mr. Putin be arrested?

The Kremlin does not appear to be concerned about Mr. Putin’s security on the trip.

“There are no worries. We have excellent dialogue with our friends in Mongolia,” Dmitri S. Peskov, the spokesman for the Kremlin, said in an interview posted to Telegram, a messaging platform, on Friday, adding that “all aspects of the visit were carefully prepared.”

Mongolia’s Foreign Ministry announced the visit in a news release on Friday.

Mr. Putin is unlikely to face arrest if he is invited into the country, said David Scheffer, a former U.S. ambassador and a chief negotiator of the statute that established the I.C.C. Instead, he added, the Russian president is likely to use the visit to “propagandize and taunt the I.C.C. and Ukraine.”