The West and Russia are measured by tribunals – Newspaper Kommersant No. 10 (7455) of 01/20/2023
MEPs on Thursday adopted a resolution harshly critical of Russia and called for the creation of a tribunal for Ukraine. meanwhile, the current international law implies the possibility of such a tribunal only under the auspices of the UN, and Moscow, as a permanent member of the Security Council, will definitely block such an initiative. So instead, both in the West and in Russia, create your own, independent of the UN tribunals for Ukraine. Russia hopes to see its real allies tribunal.
The resolution with the need to create a “tribunal in connection with the aggression of Russia” of the deputies of the European Parliament made a decision on Thursday without unnecessary controversy. The results of the vote against the revolution speak for themselves: 472 parliamentarians were in favor, 19 were against, and 33 abstained.
AT documentthe presence of a declarative nature, we are talking not only about the creation of a tribunal (Latvia and the Netherlands have already voluntarily sent it to them), but in general and in general about the emotional actions of Moscow (and at the same time Minsk as its ally), the demand to immediately stop “all military activity in connection with the situation”, EU support for Kyiv, as well as the possibility of creating such a financial mechanism that would allow the redirection of frozen funds to Russian funds to help Ukraine.
“They are discussing phantasmagoric ideas about creating a tribunal, some kind of mechanism for reparations with Russia. Let. As they say, no matter what the child is amused. All these tribunals are needed by Ukrainians and their patrons as tribunes. They need stands from which they shake the air, ”Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference on the results of 2022 the day before. “Issues about the creation of quasi-legal structures to serve certain whims, desires have long been heard, the illegitimacy of this is absolutely obvious. There will be no consequences for us,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
The fact is that it is possible to create a mechanism under the auspices of the UN only with the sanction of the Security Council.
Kyiv is now preparing a draft meeting for nomination for consideration by the UN General Assembly in the meeting. But the decisions of this structure are advisory in nature.
And at the level of the Security Council, Russia is definitely blocking such an initiative.
An alternative would be the International Criminal Court (ICC). As early as March 2 last year, the Sudanese prosecutor’s office began investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine. But potential sources of power are greatly complicated by the fact that Moscow refused to participate in the work of the ICC back in 2016, and Kyiv did not confirm the full jurisdiction of this court.
Instead, as European Commissioner for Justice and Supreme Rights Didier Reynders said the other day, investigators from the European structure and the close EU began their work on Ukraine.
A dozen countries are already conducting their own investigation, collecting materials on the case
pointing out the absence at the end of the moment of “sufficient consensus” on the issue of a tribunal, it is important, as Mr. Reynders explained, “to collect and preserve the reason for the trial that may arise in the future.” On the creation of a protocol on Monday and German Foreign Minister Anna Burbock. By the way, the ICC called this idea “undermining” their penalty.
Meanwhile, to create a tribunal, according to preliminary data, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin. In November, he spoke about the need to “form an international tribunal to investigate the crimes of the Kyiv regime on the territory of Ukraine, by analogy with the Nuremberg and Tokyo investigations of the tribunals.” “We know that European countries are now conducting an investigation and a court hearing in a court in The Hague. I am convinced that we must prepare our own adequate response and create a judicial body, which will include both Russia and its allies,” Mr. Bastrykin explained.
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin this week brought charges against the leadership of Ukraine, as well as former French President Francois Hollande and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in an international military tribunal, for “planning to start a world war with predictable consequences.” Such conclusions Mr. Volodin drew from the words of former leaders that the Minsk meetings on Donbass were necessary in order to give Kyiv additional time and the opportunity to become stronger.