Konstantin Kosachev. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 14The Ukrainian initiative to create a tribunal for Russia has no international legal basis, said Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev. court, the European Commission, the government of the Netherlands to create a special international tribunal for Russia. «The Ukrainian initiative is a priori devoid of an international legal basis. Without the consent of the state to submit to jurisdiction, as well as the organization of any tribunal outside Chapter VII of the UN Charter (through a consensus vote in the Security Council ) is legally impossible,» the senator wrote on his Telegram channel. According to him, international law with the method of coordinating the will of states «is fundamentally different from national law, where there are relations of power and subordination.» Kosachev also recalled that there were two military tribunals — in Nuremberg and Tokyo, which were created by the law of the victorious country vests for the prosecution of war criminals. «And now more than ever it is important for the Kyiv regime to remember these precedents,» the politician concluded. according to the statute of the tribunal
