Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, will sign an agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine in Strasbourg on Wednesday 25 June.<\/p>\n
The Committee has also completed the groundwork for an Enlarged Partial Agreement enabling a wide range of parties \u2013 including members and non-members of the Council of Europe, as well as the European Union \u2013 to support and help manage the tribunal.<\/p>\n
The Special Tribunal will be set up within the framework of the Council of Europe with the mandate to prosecute senior leaders for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The Council of Europe\u2019s priority work on Ukraine, a member state since 1995, includes the Register of Damage \u2013 which has already received more than 34,000 claims \u2013 and on-going work to establish both a Claims Commission and the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression.<\/p>\n
The signature will also be livestreamed via the Council of Europe website and its Facebook<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, will sign an agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine in Strasbourg on Wednesday 25 June. The Committee has also completed the groundwork for an Enlarged Partial Agreement enabling a wide range […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpcoe.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}