02:58Germany: Bundestag rejects motion to establish special tribunal against Russian military offensive in Ukraine
MPs rejected a motion by the Christian Democrats aiming to establish a special international tribunal for Russian leaders and military commanders involved in the Ukraine conflict, during a parliamentary session in Berlin on Thursday.
Speaking during the debate on the matter at the Bundestag, Stefan Keuter, Member of German Bundestag for Alternative Fur Deutschland (AfD) stated that he went into the Bundestag archives to look up previous debates on special tribunals on conflicts in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan. "Shall I tell you something? I didn't find anything at all. They have never existed. There are negotiations at the International Criminal Court, where such crimes that are being accused here, actually belong," said Keuter.
He went on to ask "why did this conflict not stay local, I wonder. Is due to the geopolitical importance of NATO outposts against Russia? Is it due to the lucrative business of the US President together with his son Hunter, that have not yet been processed in Ukraine. Is it due to the influence on Ukrainian politics where citizens can suddenly become ministers?"
Commenting on the issue, another MP, Ulrich Lechte for the Free Democrats said "A criminal like Putin must not be allowed to proceed, otherwise he will commit new crimes and bring suffering to entire Europe. Therefore, even if the weapons speak during war, the law must not remain silent and the law is not silent.
Robert Farle a fraction-less lawmaker demanded international law to be developed further, while accusing the US of seeking world domination. "If I go go back to the decades that I have witnessed in my life then I find a power in the world that is currently striving for world domination and believes it can impose sanctions on every country in this world if it doesn't do what they want. And that's the USA with 150 interventions which violated international law. I remember the war in Iraq with the invented weapons of mass destruction, I remember the Kosovo war - the attack on Yugoslavia," he concluded.
The comments came after the Christian Democrats brought forward the motion a special tribunal against Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.
02:58Credit: Bundestag
MPs rejected a motion by the Christian Democrats aiming to establish a special international tribunal for Russian leaders and military commanders involved in the Ukraine conflict, during a parliamentary session in Berlin on Thursday.
Speaking during the debate on the matter at the Bundestag, Stefan Keuter, Member of German Bundestag for Alternative Fur Deutschland (AfD) stated that he went into the Bundestag archives to look up previous debates on special tribunals on conflicts in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan. "Shall I tell you something? I didn't find anything at all. They have never existed. There are negotiations at the International Criminal Court, where such crimes that are being accused here, actually belong," said Keuter.
He went on to ask "why did this conflict not stay local, I wonder. Is due to the geopolitical importance of NATO outposts against Russia? Is it due to the lucrative business of the US President together with his son Hunter, that have not yet been processed in Ukraine. Is it due to the influence on Ukrainian politics where citizens can suddenly become ministers?"
Commenting on the issue, another MP, Ulrich Lechte for the Free Democrats said "A criminal like Putin must not be allowed to proceed, otherwise he will commit new crimes and bring suffering to entire Europe. Therefore, even if the weapons speak during war, the law must not remain silent and the law is not silent.
Robert Farle a fraction-less lawmaker demanded international law to be developed further, while accusing the US of seeking world domination. "If I go go back to the decades that I have witnessed in my life then I find a power in the world that is currently striving for world domination and believes it can impose sanctions on every country in this world if it doesn't do what they want. And that's the USA with 150 interventions which violated international law. I remember the war in Iraq with the invented weapons of mass destruction, I remember the Kosovo war - the attack on Yugoslavia," he concluded.
The comments came after the Christian Democrats brought forward the motion a special tribunal against Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.