Representatives of more than thirty European countries, including EU Foreign Ministers such as the Spanish José Manuel Albares and the high representative Kaja Kallas, have arrived this Friday in Ukraine, on a symbolic visit called to also serve as a political guarantee to the Creation of a new special court About the conflict.
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, who has addressed a few words to the international delegation, has taken advantage of his speech to vindicate precisely accountability, since “If a single war ends without punishment, there will be more“.
Therefore, it is essential to judge the Russians “just like the Nazis” and has celebrated the steps to create the so -called Special Court for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, “so that any aggressor potential thinks twice.”
The president thanked political efforts to implement this court-he has admitted that “there is a lot of work to do, both political and legal”-but believes that it is “A moral duty of Europe” culminate the works and establish a specific organ in the Hague.
All participants in the meeting have sealed the Leapolis statement To formally endorse the creation of the court, “a decisive step for justice to be done” in the words of Kallas, who has warned that “each apex of the Russian war is documented.” “There is no room for impunity. Russia’s aggression will not be unpunished,” he said in a statement.
Allegation for common values
Zelenski personally thanked this visit from a group of countries that, like kyiv, “believe in international law.” Shows that we are all Europe, “the president emphasized, which also sees a common will to” increase pressure on Europe “and continue supporting Ukrainian military capacities.
“The desire to end the war has to grow within Russia and this begins with a feeling, the feeling that they are losing,” he added, “proud” of “a Europe that does not kill” as opposed to the invasion ordered by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in February 2022.
The Ukrainian government Nor does his desire to accelerate the steps to integrate into the European Union hideas highlighted by the Foreign Minister Andri Sibiga, at the end of a meeting with Kallas to which the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal has also attended.
For Sibiga, it is “a historical meeting in a historical moment” that demonstrates the “key role” of Ukraine when defending values that are common. The ministers, among which the Spanish is José Manuel Albares, They have visited a cemetery to pay tribute to the victims of the Russian invasion.
Among the assistant ministers were the Frenchman Jean-Noel Barrot or the German Johann Wadephul, recently designated. The new head of the German diplomacy has described the agreement for the special tibunal as “a crucial milestone” and has pointed out, like other partners, that “Russia’s crimes cannot be unpunished.”
For his part, the British David Lammy hopes that Russian leaders can be prosecuted by the “War of aggression”. “Today, and every day, we are on the side of Ukraine,” he proclaimed.
