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Leonidchenko

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2022-08-23
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2023-06-07
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  1. “Resolution 2379 (2017) specifies that the Iraqi authorities, rather than third countries, are the primary recipient of the evidence gathered by the team, and it does not attach any preconditions in that context, in particular the adoption of a special law on international crimes. We sincerely hope that UNITAD will not overlook its mandate and give Iraq access to this evidence for the prompt launching of the process of holding those guilty to account.”

    2023-06-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9341 (2023) · source

  2. “We note the opening of new lines of investigation, including into attacks on Iraqi police and security forces and the seizure and exploitation of Iraqi oil. The Russian Federation supports efforts to bring terrorists to accountability. In the reporting period, we have made seconded specialists available to UNITAD. At the same time, we would like to underscore that the job of combating impunity for members of Da’esh/ISIL does not begin and end with gathering evidence. In that regard, we will remind UNITAD of the need to fulfil a key part of its mandate by handing this evidence over to the law enforcement and judicial bodies of Iraq, as stipulated in resolution 2379 (2017).”

    2023-06-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9341 (2023) · source

  3. “We welcome the conclusion of work on the preliminary assessment reports on the investigation of crimes against the Sunni community, as well as cases of destruction of cultural and religious sites by terrorists. We would like to see the Team’s summary of destroyed and damaged religious and cultural heritage sites in Iraqi communities. Of particular interest is the subject of terrorists’ development and use of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. We hope to promptly identify and make public all cases of the use of such weapons. It is already clear that their use was not limited to the attack on Tazah Khurmata on 8 March 2016 or to the territory of Iraq, in general. The systemic practice of using chemical weapons by ISIL, which even has its own chemical programme, simply could not have left neighbouring Syria unscathed.”

    2023-06-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9341 (2023) · source

  4. “Mr. Leonidchenko (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the issue of bringing terrorists to account for the atrocities they have committed. This is an integral and important part of the fight against terrorism as a phenomenon. In that regard, we are closely monitoring the activities of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) in collecting evidence of crimes committed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq. We are grateful to Mr. Ritscher for presenting UNITAD’s tenth report (see S/2023/367). We note the growing evidence of ISIL crimes against the Kaka’i, Shabak, Shia Turkmen, Yazidis and Christians.”

    2023-06-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9341 (2023) · source

  5. “The double standards that have become a common practice for the Court compel us to doubt its ability to bring about justice and promote a lasting reconciliation process in the Sudan or any other situation country. At one of our previous meetings, Mr. Khan recalled some words of his late father, who was indeed a very wise man, saying that if you point a finger at someone, three fingers will point back at you. That is also true for those who like to point fingers at my country. The only difference is that the people in this Chamber barely have enough fingers on both hands to point to all the transgressions of these self-proclaimed zealots for justice.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9113 (2022) · source

  6. “The Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, which has spared no time or effort with regard to the Ukrainian dossier, even to the detriment of other cases, has demonstrated no particular zeal in investigating the crimes of British and American military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, the new Prosecutor of the Court has completely deprioritized the relevant proceedings — in other words, the investigation into them has stopped. It is unlikely that the BBC’s sensational revelations will change anything. The entire history of the ICC shows us that when accountability for the military of Western States is at issue, combating impunity becomes quite unnecessary and even dangerous.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9113 (2022) · source

  7. “One would think that in this situation the ICC could not simply stand aside when it should be guided by the goal of ensuring justice for the victims, and that at the same time, Great Britain itself should naturally provide the Court with all possible assistance in punishing the guilty parties, while other Western countries should surely allocate no fewer resources to that investigation than they are doing to the Ukrainian dossier. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. Western countries present themselves as zealots for justice when it comes to Russia. In the case of crimes committed by their own military, however, they do everything they can to avoid responsibility, with excuses, evasions, bureaucratic red tape, specialized protective legislation, sanctions and even threats.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9113 (2022) · source

  8. “The ability of Britain’s judicial system to independently bring those responsible for these disgusting crimes to justice is highly questionable. And yet more than 10 years have passed since then and we are still seeing the classic scenario from all the collective West’s unprovoked, unjustified and aggressive wars, which is that there are numerous victims among the civilian population, but no culprits among the NATO soldiers.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9113 (2022) · source

  9. “It seems evident that the ICC, which receives so-called financial and organizational assistance from Western States to the tune of millions of dollars to investigate the Ukrainian dossier, has completely different priorities at this time. Such a passion for Ukraine is utterly incomprehensible to us. There are other serious issues on the Court’s agenda that have either stagnated for years or been intentionally swept under the rug. Last month, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalists published evidence of the British military’s involvement in some 50 incidents in which civilians were killed in 2010 and 2011 in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. As we know, the ICC has jurisdiction over the situation.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9113 (2022) · source

  10. “Mr. Leonidchenko (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to Mr. Karim Khan for presenting the report. We regret that the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court once again did not meet the set time frame, presenting the report a month late. It is difficult to understand how this correlates with the pledge to pay particular attention to the subjects transmitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the Security Council. In spite of the delay, we do not see in this report any progress in investigating the situation in Darfur. It is hardly possible to consider the beginning of the first single-accused trial of the one defendant, 17 years after the case was transferred to the ICC by the Security Council, to be a breakthrough.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9113 (2022) · source