STRASBOURG: Thirty-four Council of Europe member states, along with Australia, Costa Rica and the EU as an institution, said Friday they would join a future special tribunal for Ukraine tasked with prosecuting Russia over its invasion of the country. “The time for Russia to be held to account for its aggression is fast approaching,” said Alain Berset, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, which acts as a guardian of human rights and democracy across the continent.

At a meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 15 May, participants approved a key decision in the process of launching the Special Tribunal for the Crime…

At its meeting on May 15 in Chisinau, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe approved the Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Management Committee of the Special…