International courts not in a position to award compensation and UN would have no enforcement power, says UK thinktank
Western and Ukrainian rhetoric claiming Russia will be required to pay reparations for the damage caused by its invasion ofis not backed by a coherent roadmap based on international law to achieve justice for Ukraine’s victims, a new report prepared by the British thinktank Ceasefire has warned.
Questions that need answering include: “What form should such reparations take? To whom would they be made and on what authority? What sort of mechanism could be entrusted to take on the task of awarding and administering reparations on such a scale? Where will the money come from?” The report finds for differing reasons that neither the international court of justice, the international criminal court nor the European court of human rights “are in a position to award reparations any time soon with the scope and scale required by the conflict in Ukraine”. It suggests the UN general assembly does have powers following an example in Syria to set up an investigating body to determine reparations, but even then the UN body would have no power of enforcement.
The second source of potential revenue is the $300bn of Russian central bank reserves held in G7 territories.
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