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Legal and human rights aspects of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine

Amendment No. 24 | Doc. 16193 | 24 June 2025

Signatories:
Ms Olena KHOMENKO, Ukraine, ECPA ; Ms Larysa BILOZIR, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Edmunds CEPURĪTIS, Latvia, SOC ; Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ukraine, ECPA ; Mr Serhii KALCHENKO, Ukraine, ECPA ; Ms Iryna KONSTANKEVYCH, Ukraine, ECPA ; Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK, Ukraine, ALDE ; Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVA, Ukraine, ALDE ; Ms Kadri TALI, Estonia, ALDE ; Ms Lesia VASYLENKO, Ukraine, ALDE
Origin
2025 - Third part-session
In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 12.5 with the following paragraph:

"invites the ICC to consider adding new charges, including crimes against humanity and genocide, in connection with the unlawful detention, enforced disappearance and torture of Ukrainian civilian detainees and with the deportation and forcible transfer and re-education of Ukrainian children, as part of the investigation into the situation in Ukraine, as well as invites States that are Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to strengthen political, legal and material support for the Court, in particular regarding bolstering the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC in Kyiv;"

Explanatory note

The work of investigators and prosecutors should be safeguarded from political interference

This reflects the understanding that only the Court and its organs possess the mandate and competence to set investigative priorities, to take decisions regarding the issuance of the relevant arrest warrants