PACE "strongly supports" creation of special tribunal for russia’s crimes against Ukraine. Belarus will become accomplice

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) "strongly supports the establishment of a special tribunal with jurisdiction over the criminal aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation, launched on February 20, 2014". This is reported by Radio Liberty.

It is noted that the jurisdiction of the tribunal "will include the role and complicity of the leaders of Belarus in the aggressive war against Ukraine".

"Its seat should be in The Hague in order to ensure mutual complementarity and cooperation with the UN International Criminal Court and other international courts and institutions", - the resolution states.

The PACE resolution also indicated the need to change the statute of the UN International Criminal Court in order to ensure the possibility of appealing to the ICC also through the UN General Assembly when the UN Security Council is blocked by russia: "To bring the ICC into line with other crimes falling under its jurisdiction. These changes strengthen the overall coherence, legitimacy and universality of international criminal justice".

"The proposal to establish a special tribunal to respond to the ongoing criminal aggression against Ukraine and the long-term reform of the ICC statute, allowing the ICC to prosecute and punish similar (future) aggression, are not mutually exclusive and should be carried out in parallel", - the PACE resolution says.

As reported, PACE recognized that the russian federation started the war against Ukraine in 2014.