US House Committee passes draft resolution on special tribunal for Russia
The Committee recommended that the House of Representatives during a joint vote support resolution H.Res.81 “Calling on the President to support the creation of a Special Tribunal for the Punishment of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.”
According to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, he had the opportunity to visit the town of Bucha outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and believes that the establishment of the special tribunal is appropriate, given the atrocities carried out there by Russian occupation forces.
The resolution’s author, congressman Bill Keating, said that the adoption of the bill is important to bring Russia to justice for its intentions in the full-scale invasion.
A tribunal should be held to try Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for war crimes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in The Hague, the Netherlands, on May 4. Putin and Russian “children’s rights ombudswoman” Maria Lvova-Belova are both wanted by the International Criminal Court for the forcible abduction of children from Ukraine to Russia.
The 123 countries that have ratified the Rome Statute establishing the Court are obliged to arrest the Kremlin dictator, should he appear in their territory.
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