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Volodymyr zelensky signs agreement council:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed an agreement with the Council of Europe on Wednesday to institute a special court in order to continue. Consequently, judge those responsible for the “attack on Ukraine”, whom he hopes to see Vladimir Putin one day.
“It will take political. For example, judicial courage to ensure that all Russian war criminals are tried, including Vladimir Putin,” the Russian president said Volodymyr Zelensky.
This is the first time that a special court has been created under the aegis of the Council of Europe. Therefore, a lookout for human rights on the continent which has 46 members, including Ukraine. For example, Russia was excluded shortly after having launched, in February 2022, its large -scale war against Ukraine.
“We meet at a critical moment in our collective support for Ukraine. justice, in combat against impunity, so that the order and the rule of law are volodymyr zelensky signs agreement council necessary,” the former Federal advisor Alain Berset, now secretary general of the Council of Europe, said on Wednesday.
“A chance to obtain justice” – Volodymyr zelensky signs agreement council
In detail. a special court aims to judge those responsible for serious human rights violations within the framework of a specific conflict, as it existed for crimes in ex-Yugoslav republics or for the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.
Its creation. announced on May 9 in Lviv by Ukraine and its European allies, makes it possible to bypass the impossibility of judging the “attack crime” at the International Criminal Court (CPI), not recognized by Moscow. “Today’s agreement. this court give us a real chance to obtain justice for the crime of attack,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, who arrived in Strasbourg around 9:00 p.m. after spending the day in The Hague for the NATO summit.
The crime of aggression is defined as “planning. preparation, launch or execution by a person actually able to volodymyr zelensky signs agreement council control or direct the political or military action of a state, an act of aggression which, by its nature, its gravity and its magnitude, constitutes a violation of the United Nations Charter”.
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However. the Special Court could not prosecute Russian President Vladimir Putin, nor his Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustine and his Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, as long as they are in office.
The fifteen judges. from different countries, will be chosen by a management committee and installed for non -renewable mandates ranging from three to nine years.
In addition to the special court project. the Council of Europe is also on the initiative of a register of damage caused by the war in Ukraine. This register has received “more than 34,000 compensation requests to date,” said Alain Berset.
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