Romania will support the creation of a special court to deal with the „crime of aggression against Ukraine”, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu has stated.
„We will continue to engage in the unprecedented collective effort to bring justice to the victims of the worst crimes committed in Ukraine. Those responsible must pay, and our collective efforts must be effective in this area because Ukraine wants justice which it deserves”, the head of Romanian diplomacy stated, according to AGERPRES.
A special tribunal was discussed as there is at present no international court with jurisdiction over the crime of aggression against Ukraine: Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus are not parties to the Rome Statute, which created the International Criminal Court (ICC) and gave it jurisdiction. However, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan stated last week that Kyiv authorities could send Russians to the Hague-based court if trials could not take place in Ukraine for legal reasons.
Russia refused to join the ICC when the court was set up in 2002 for offenses including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
„Legally, yes, it wouldn’t represent an obstacle to our jurisdiction”, Khan told a press conference at the headquarters of the EU’s judicial agency, Eurojust.
The Case for Creating a Special Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
