The junta-controlled newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar (GNLM) reported on Monday that the military regime had entered into an agreement with Russia for “mutual protection” against what it called the “misuse of international legal processes.”
During an international legal forum held in Saint Petersburg, Russia between May 19 and 21, a delegation led by the Myanmar junta’s attorney general and minister of legal affairs Dr. Thida Oo took part in a signing ceremony for the protection pact, as well as a supplementary agreement on the steps for implementing it.
Legal experts from Russia and Myanmar—countries whose top officials have been accused of war crimes by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC)—also discussed a legal cooperation programme to be implemented along with the pact.
The west African nation of the Gambia filed charges of genocide against the Myanmar military in the United Nations. . .
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