The statement came as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the country, despite an international arrest warrant against him over the war in Gaza.

Hungary said, on Thursday, April 4, that it would begin the procedure of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), just before Prime Minister Viktor Orban was to receive his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, the subject of an ICC arrest warrant. “Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court,” Gergely Gulyas, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, wrote in a brief statement. “The government will initiate the withdrawal procedure on Thursday, in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework.” The ICC is the world’s only permanent global tribunal for war crimes and genocide.