UN, Jan 9 Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya in In a conversation with journalists, he called Kyiv's idea to organize a tribunal against Russia ridiculous.
According to him, representatives of Ukraine «gush» with ridiculous initiatives. Nebenzya stressed that he has no time to comment on such ideas of Kyiv.
In late November, the European Commission came up with the initiative to create a special international tribunal for Ukraine under the auspices of the UN. EC chief Ursula von der Leyen said the commission is «ready to work with international partners» to advance the initiative. Later, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Karim Khan, noted that the EU plans to create a special tribunal «undermine a similar investigation that the ICC is conducting.» The document “on combating impunity for crimes committed” in Ukraine, agreed on December 9 by the EU Council, does not even mention the EC proposal on a tribunal. mechanism under the auspices of the UN requires the sanction of the UN Security Council, without which the proposed EU «tribunal for Ukraine» is impossible. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov pointed out that Russia categorically rejects Kyiv's accusations of war crimes on the territory of Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the idea of creating an international court for Ukraine a «cabal» and said that it would not have jurisdiction over Russia.