MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. The International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution of judicial neocolonialism aims to eliminate undesirable heads of state in Africa and support armed conflicts, Alexander Mezyayev, head of the international law department at the TISBI University of Management, said.

At a roundtable on the issues of ensuring security on the African continent, he said: "There are three real goals of the ICC. They are as follows: the first is eliminating, and not only politically but sometimes physically, the unwanted heads of state and government, the second is dismantling progressive international law and the third is supporting armed conflicts."

Presenting a report by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia entitled "Western and non-Western actors in ensuring security in Africa," he noted that judicial neocolonialism is one of the main issues of ensuring security on the African continent. "The International Criminal Court is the main institute of legal neocolonialism today. From day one of its operation, the International Criminal Court has chosen precisely Africa as the target of its activity and Africa continues to remain such a target," the scholar stressed.

According to Mezyayev, "Africa’s security today is a matter of principle related to the complete decolonization of the world, including the judicial one." "I see counteracting the ICC here as the central issue," the expert concluded.