{"id":955,"date":"2022-05-20T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2022\/05\/joint-statement-on-ukraine-s-application-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:14:00","slug":"joint-statement-on-ukraine-s-application-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2022\/05\/joint-statement-on-ukraine-s-application-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement on Ukraine\u2019s application against Russia at the International Court of Justice Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joint statement on Ukraine\u2019s application against Russia at the International Court of Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>May 20, 2022 \u2013 Ottawa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Statement on behalf of Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia &#038; Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, European Union:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe welcome Ukraine\u2019s application against Russia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which seeks to establish that Russia has no lawful basis to take military action in Ukraine on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations of genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn these proceedings, the ICJ issued a significant ruling on March 16, 2022, which orders Russia to immediately suspend its military operations in Ukraine. We welcome the Court\u2019s ruling and strongly urge Russia to comply with this legally binding order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cReaffirming our commitment to accountability and the rules-based international order, we hereby express our joint intention to explore all options to support Ukraine in its efforts before the ICJ and to consider a possible intervention in these proceedings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe strongly believe that this is a matter that is rightfully brought to the ICJ, so that it can provide judgement on Russia\u2019s allegations of genocide as basis for its unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine. As the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the ICJ is a pillar of the rules-based international order and has a vital role to play in the peaceful settlement of disputes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe call upon the international community to explore all options to support Ukraine in its proceedings before the ICJ.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joint statement on Ukraine\u2019s application against Russia at the International Court of Justice May 20, 2022 \u2013 Ottawa Statement on behalf of Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia &#038; Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}