“At a meeting of the Core Group) in Brussels, they agreed to launch a special tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine, which should punish Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and do so on the basis of the bilateral agreement of Ukraine with the Council of Europe, which will be announced on the last, 14th meeting of Core. Group in Kiev in April 2025.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to one of the European officials who participated in a group meeting held on February 3-4 in Brussels
Details: It was the 13th meeting of the Core Group, which approved the draft Tribunal Statute.
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A special tribunal for the punishment of aggression against Ukraine will be created on the basis of the Council of Europe, which will be signed in 2015 by a corresponding bilateral agreement with Ukraine, and the final decision on this will be made during the last, 14th, a meeting of a group of states (Core Group) From the creation of a special joint.
“During the Core Group meeting this week, the experts approved the draft of the Special Tribunal Statute on the crime Agreement) that other states will be able to join, ” – explained the interlocutor of” European Truth “.
The official specified that the same principle created a register of losses from war with Russia, one of the joint projects of the Council of Europe and Ukraine, which will become part of the general mechanism of compensation of losses of Ukraine from the war, which was already joined by 43 countries of the world and the European Union.
The Council of Europe will play a key role in the creation of the tribunal, which is why at the meeting of February 3-4, the Council of Europe Secretary General Alen Berse came to Brussels, who conducted negotiations with the European Commissioner Michael McGrath, EU Supreme Representative Kaya Callas. Ukraine Irina Wise.
“In order for the tribunal to be created, the decision of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – but it will be easy to get it, because it requires only two -thirds of the votes. After that, other states will be able to join the extended partial agreement,” the European official said.
As the European Truth reported as a single high-ranking EU official on the conditions the tribunal, and it will be announced clear plans for its creation.
Discussion on a special -purpose for Russia for the crime of aggression has been ongoing since 2022, but practical progress has not been practical for this issue for a long time.
Earlier, the coalition of the States for the creation of a special about a tribunal agreed the key parameters of the tribunal, in particular on its jurisdiction, and processed a road card with “specific further steps”.
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