President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE) Alain Bersse on Wednesday, June 25, will sign an agreement on a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine in Strasbourg. This was reported in the press service of the CE.
“Safety of Europe is based on the law, principles and actions”
The Committee of the Ministers of the Council of Europe (KMSU) worked on legal documents underlying a special tribunal, since the Ukrainian authorities expressed a request to create it and this request was supported by this year of foreign business ministers in May of this year in Luxembourg, the press service said.
KMSA has already completed preparatory work on the conclusion of an expanded partial agreement, which will allow all the CE countries, the states that are not part of it, as well as the European Union, support the special tribunal and help in its management. Now the countries and the parties that will express interest in joining the expanded partial agreement will be able to study key legal documents on which the activities of the special tribunal are based.
“For the first time, a special international tribunal will be created to consider the crime of aggression. Created in the framework of the European Council, it will bring to justice of those who used force in violation of the UN Charter. The special tribunal will apply international law without double standards for this and confirm that European security is not based on silence or impunity, but on the law, principles and actions,” said the Secretary General Alain Berssey.
Special tribunal in Ukraine will pursue officials of the Russian Federation
A special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine will act within the framework of the Council of Europe with a mandate for the persecution of high officials of the Russian Federation. The crime of aggression concerns the decision to use armed force against another state, which is a violation of the UN Charter.
Military crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine during a full -scale invasion of Russia are investigated by the International Criminal Court (MUS). However, the Mus cannot consider the crime of aggression in this case, since it does not have proper jurisdiction for this. That is why it was decided to create a special tribunal to crime aggression against Ukraine.
