Poland and Iceland have expressed readiness to join the agreement needed to launch a Special Tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine in relation to the Lukashenka regime.
“Poland and Iceland have confirmed their readiness to join the agreement necessary to launch the Special Tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Another step has been taken towards justice for Lukashenka and his allies who committed the crime of aggression,” said Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet and Head of the National Anti-Crisis Management Pavel Latushka.
Earlier, Latushka, as a member of the Coordination Council delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, initiated an amendment to a PACE resolution providing for the extension of the Special Tribunal’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression against Ukraine to include the Belarusian leadership, the United Transitional Cabinet reported.
On April 2, Latushka met with the Council of Europe’s Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law Gianluca Esposito. The sides discussed issues related to the Special Tribunal’s work. An agreement was reached on the transfer of evidence gathered by the National Anti-Crisis Management concerning acts of aggression committed by the Lukashenka regime against Ukraine for the purposes of justice.
The United Transitional Cabinet and the Coordination Council see their next task as securing the participation of as many countries as possible in the future tribunal.
“It should be noted that the adopted Statute of the Special Tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine contains provisions granting the tribunal jurisdiction over the crime of aggression against Ukraine committed by Lukashenka. The tribunal does not recognise the dictator’s functional immunity and does not recognise any possible amnesties for him for this crime,” Latushka said.
