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Rada ratifies Rome Statute

Rada ratifies Rome Statute

The Verkhovna Rada ratified the Rome Statute.

281 MPs voted for the bill 0285 as a basis and as a whole, out of the minimum required 226.

Yaroslav Zhelezniak, MP from the Holos faction, announced this on his Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The Rome Statute was signed on behalf of Ukraine on January 20, 2000, but required ratification by the Ukrainian parliament to enter into force for Ukraine.

Rome Statute. Infographic: Slovo i Dilo"

The decision of the Verkhovna Rada provides for the ratification of the Rome Statute.

According to the bill, Ukraine declares that requests from the International Criminal Court for cooperation can be sent both through diplomatic channels and directly to the Prosecutor General’s Office (for investigation and trial) or to the Ministry of Justice (for execution of sentences and other decisions of the International Criminal Court, adopted based on the results of the case).

Also, Ukraine declares that within seven years after the entry into force of the Rome Statute for Ukraine, it will not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court regarding the crimes specified in Article 8 (On War Crimes), when the crime was probably committed by its citizens.

It is also noted that Ukraine states that the International Criminal Court's request for cooperation and any documents attached to it must be sent in Ukrainian or accompanied by a translation into Ukrainian.

The law enters into force simultaneously with the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of Ukraine in connection with the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and its amendments".

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in March 2023, the International Criminal Court announced a decision to issue an arrest warrant for the president of russia vladimir putin and the russian Commissioner for Children Maria Lvova-Belova, they are suspected of committing the war crime of illegal deportation of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to russia at least since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into Ukraine.

Earlier, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba noted that Ukraine should ratify the Rome Statute, on the basis of which the International Criminal Court operates.