L'APCE a demandé à l'unanimité la création d'un tribunal pénal à La Haye pour poursuivre les dirigeants politiques et militaires russes et biélorusses qui ont «planifié, préparé, initié ou exécuté» la guerre d'agression de la Russie contre l'Ukraine.

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 «Sans leur décision de mener cette guerre d'agression contre l'Ukraine, les atrocités qui en découlent, ainsi que toutes les destructions, les décès et les dommages occasionnés par la guerre, ne se seraient pas produits», a souligné l'Assemblée.

PACE has unanimously demanded the setting up of an international criminal tribunal in The Hague to prosecute Russian and Belarusian political and military leaders who “planned, prepared, initiated or executed” Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine 🇺🇦

#StandWithUkraine “Without their decision to wage this war, the atrocities that flow from it, as well as the destruction, death and damage resulting from the war, would not have occurred,” the Assembly said in a resolution.

Good morning and welcome to day two of the #PACEwinter2023 session!

Here's a quick thread on today's highlights... At midday CET there's a warm welcome to German Foreign Minister @ABaerbock, who addresses the Assembly and will then take questions from PACE members.

Livestream in 7 languages:
assembly.coe.int/nw/SessionVide…

Or scroll back mid-stream on YouTube:

1/ Happy birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, signed #OnThisDay 70 years ago! Today, the #ECHR binds 47 nations, obliging them to respect the basic rights of everyone they deal with. In this #thread, we look at the Assembly’s key role in its drafting. #ECHR70 2/ When the @CoE met for the first time in the summer of 1949, there was a widespread expectation that one of its most urgent tasks was to draft a “charter of individual rights”, to cement democracy in Europe and avoid a repeat of the horrors of Nazi rule.

.@PACE_President Rik Daems will tonight mark the 70th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights with an appeal to @CoE member States to “cherish, uphold and treasure” the Convention. #ECHR70
pace.coe.int/en/news/8083/7… Speaking at an event in Athens to mark the anniversary, the President recalled that it was the Assembly which first proposed the drafting of the Convention, at its first session in the summer of 1949.

The European Convention on Human Rights was signed #OnThisDay exactly 70 years ago!

The Assembly, which played a major role in initiating and shaping the Convention, and has been a guardian of its values ever since, is marking the occasion in several ways...

#ECHR70 #ECHR .@PACE_President Rik Daems will join other @CoE leaders in Athens, the birthplace of democracy, for a @coe2020gr event this evening - where he'll speak about the Convention's past, present and future. Watch out for more on the site later!