On January 1, 2025, Ukraine will become the 125th member state of the International Criminal Court.
Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhii Kyslytsia officially deposited the instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in New York.
This is stated on the website of the President of Ukraine.
"This is a landmark event for Ukraine. We have completed the long process of ratifying this important instrument; and finally, we are fully participating in the work of the world's key criminal justice body," said Mudra.
The Rome Statute was signed by Ukraine in 2000. In August of this year, the Verkhovna Rada ratified the Rome Statute. 281 parliamentarians voted for the bill as a basis and as a whole, with the minimum required 226. On Independence Day, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the corresponding law.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in March 2023 the International Criminal Court announced a decision to issue a warrant for the arrest of the president of russia vladimir putin and the Commissioner of russia for Children's Affairs Maria Lvova-Belova, they are suspected of committing the war crime of illegal deportation of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to russia at least since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into Ukraine.
Earlier, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba noted that Ukraine should ratify the Rome Statute, on the basis of which the International Criminal Court operates.
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