Meeting in Vilnius under the Lithuanian chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the Justice Ministers of 46 Member States adopted a declaration on Thursday 5 September reaffirming the need to create a special tribunal for Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine.
A tribunal that would be placed under the auspices of the Council of Europe and based on a bilateral agreement between the Strasbourg-based organisation and the Ukrainian government, in line with...