Russia blocked past attempts at the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the court.
for accountability for perpetrators of abuse under toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, but said there was a “huge chance” for an inclusive political transition, and that early signs were promising.to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of brutal Assad family rule.
“We will need to make sure that those who are responsible for these violations, be it on the side of the previous government, the president and others, but also all others who are responsible for violations – that they are brought to account,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told a Geneva press briefing, calling for meticulous preservation of evidence.
“ is going to be a key piece of the transition, because we cannot afford that we go back to those periods where indeed impunity reigns.” Turk’s office pointed to the disappearance of more than 100 000 people during the war alone, and the use of torture andSyria is not currently a member of the International Criminal Court, although a new government could join it. Russiawas a “huge chance” for inclusive dialogue on the political transition in Syria’s new era.this inclusive, very inclusive dialogue,” h. “There is a huge chance for this to happen.
“We need to insist that it is not OK, and not legal, to use anti-personnel mines in Ukraine, it is not OK to provide them for use there,” he said, in an apparent reference to US President Joe Biden’shad been killed in gang violence in Haiti’s capital at the weekend, bringing this year’s total death toll to a “staggering” 5 000.
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