Fifteen member states of the Council of Europe have already expressed their readiness to join the Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Management Committee of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.

We thank our partners in Estonia, Spain, Costa Rica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Sweden, as well as Portugal, which has recently expressed its willingness to join the Agreement.

To reach the minimum required number that would allow the issue to be put to a vote at the Committee of Ministers meeting in Chișinău in May, only one more state is needed.

We express our special gratitude to the Council of Europe and to Secretary General Alain Berset for their leading role in advancing the establishment of the tribunal.

“This is not just about supporting Ukraine. This is about principles. All those who value life, justice, and the rule of law need to be united in protecting these shared values.

We urge all countries in Europe and across the world to join our historic accountability effort to prosecute and punish the crime of aggression for the first time since the Nuremberg Tribunal,” said Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha.