Japarova emphasized the importance of creating a special tribunal to investigate the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Japarova called on the member states of the United Nations to support the resolution on the creation of a special tribunal on the crime of aggression by the Russian Federation, which will soon be submitted to the General Assembly for consideration.

According to the correspondent of “Ukrinform” in New York, Japarova made the relevant statement during a speech at the open debate of the UN Security Council on the rule of law in international relations.

“We call on all responsible states to support the resolution on the creation of the tribunal, which we are going to submit to the General Assembly,” she said.

According to Japarova, “the law of force, which Russia barbarically practices against Ukraine, gives a clear signal to everyone present in this hall: no one is safe anymore.”

“If a country that abuses the rights and privileges of a permanent member of the Security Council attacks another UN member state, it means only one thing – security is destroyed, the international world is called into question, the rule of law is grossly violated,” Dzaparova added.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine noted that 88 years ago, the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union signed the London Agreement and the Statute of the International Military Tribunal, which opened the way to the Nuremberg Trials.

“This is exactly what we have to do today – to create a special tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression,” Japarova stressed.

Special Tribunal for Russia

At the beginning of December 2022, it became known that a draft resolution is circulating in the UN on the creation of an international tribunal like Nuremberg to hold the leadership accountable for crimes of aggression in Ukraine.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine is gathering a critical mass of support for the launch of a special tribunal regarding the crime of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

On December 1, 2022, the National Assembly of France – the lower house of the parliament – adopted a “very powerful” resolution in support of Ukraine and approved the creation of a special tribunal for the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and his closest circle for war crimes in Ukraine.