Iceland and Poland supported the creation of a tribunal on Russian aggression
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Iceland and Poland confirmed their readiness to join the agreement to establish a Special Tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
This was announced by Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga.
According to him, after the number of confirmations from Council of Europe member states reaches 17, the agreement can be put to a formal vote.
“This is a turning point: with 17 confirmations, we have officially crossed the minimum legal threshold of Council of Europe member states needed to put the agreement to a vote,” said Sibiga.
He clarified that the next step should be the consideration and adoption of relevant documents at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, scheduled for May 14-15 in Chisinau.
The minister also recalled that work on launching the tribunal has been ongoing for almost a year.
“Less than a year has passed since we gave the green light to the Tribunal on May 9, 2025, when we gathered the foreign ministers of European countries in Lviv,” he noted.
Sibiga added that all legal steps to launch the mechanism have already been prepared, and Ukraine continues to involve new countries in the process.
“We will continue to collect signatures from countries to join – both within the Council of Europe and outside it, on all continents and in all regions,” he said.
Separately, the minister emphasized that the creation of the tribunal is an important step in holding the Russian leadership accountable.
As a reminder, earlier, the head of the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Maria Malmer Stenergard, reported that Stockholm had joined the agreement on the Special Tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
As reported, during an informal meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers in Kyiv , Germany, the United Kingdom, and Moldova announced their accession to the agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
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