The Supreme Council's decision to ratify the Statute of Rome is historic. Now Ukraine can be represented before the International Criminal Court.
A doctor of philosophy in law, senior minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine 2015-2021, stated this in a comment to the RBC-Ukraine YouTube channel. Volodymyr Martinenko.
Vin noted that it was also decided to allow Ukraine to be a party to the investigation of criminal matters, which are being considered at the ISS.
“What are we talking about? We are talking about those that Ukraine can now be not just an outside observer or a supplier of the evidence base, but a participant in the review of the process, the review of the deepest military atrocities of the Russian Federation. This is very important and, in principle, the message for which ratification We needed to extinguish the Rome Statute” , – Martinenko explained.
In his words, Ukraine rejected a great number of opportunities to consider criminal cases that were not related to military processes.
Martinenko added that it is now urgently necessary to change the legislation in accordance with the requirements prescribed for the signatories of the Rome Statute.
What was conveyed
I guess last year, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky introduced to the Rad and the bill that proposed the ratification of the Rome Statute.
Already today, on September 21, the Rada supported such an initiative. 281 parliamentarians voted for the decision.
As the Intercessor of the Minister of Defense of the Office of the President of Ukraine Irina Mudra stated, it is timely to allow Ukraine to increase the effectiveness of the ISS robots against the punishment of Russian military mischiefs c.
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