Responsibility will come. Foreign Ministry responded to the urgent decision of Russia to withdraw from the Rome Statute
Responsibility will come. Foreign Ministry responded to the urgent decision of Russia to withdraw from the Rome Statute
Marian Betz© UNIAN
The ratification of this document by the ICC in the Hague suggests that the crimes committed by the citizens who ratified it, or on their territory will be under the jurisdiction of the international court.
The press Secretary of the Ministry of foreign Affairs Marian Betz said that despite Russia’s decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the responsibility for the occupation of Ukrainian lands will come to the aggressor.
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She wrote about this in his Twitter.
2/2 the Responsibility of the Russian side for unleashing aggression against Ukraine will surely come. Sooner or later
— Mariana Betsa (@Mariana_Betsa) 16 Nov 2016.
“Russia intends to withdraw from the Rome Statute. Also very urgent. Especially in the context of the recent report of the ICC, which recorded its crimes. The responsibility of the Russian side for unleashing aggression against Ukraine will surely come. Sooner or later,” said Betz.
We remind that on 15 November it became known that the Prosecutor of the International criminal court, Fatou Bensouda, in its report on the preliminary investigation of Ukrainian Affairs acknowledged the situation on the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, equivalent to the international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. In the document, Russia’s actions on the Peninsula in March 2014 recognized occupation. After that, Moscow has refused from participation in the Rome Statute.
Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International criminal court provides that crimes committed by citizens who ratified it, or on their territory will be under the jurisdiction of the international court in the Hague. Russia signed it in 2000, but still not ratified.
One of the most notorious trials of the ISS was the case of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was tried for genocide.