March 4 () –
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Wopke Hoekstra, has announced the creation of a ‘Dialogue Group for Responsibility in Ukraine’ that will support 45 countries, as confirmed during the United for Justice conference that is being held these days in the city from Lviv.
“It is great to see so much support from the international community for the investigation of the crimes committed during this war and to obtain justice for Ukraine,” the Dutch minister explained in a statement, although he stressed that “with so many initiatives and good ideas circulating , there is a need for coordination control”.
The objective of the group is to be a coordination mechanism, a platform for both countries and international organizations and civil society to discuss and align initiatives that seek judicial accountability for the invasion of Ukraine, according to a statement. of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The group’s fields of work, detailed in the letter, are four: international support for Ukraine, the actions of regional and international institutions, national research and documentation of civil society initiatives.
These work camps will have groups of supervisors, including staff from the International Criminal Court (ICC), from the European Union, representatives of civil society and, in all of them, at least one Ukrainian representative.
In July 2022, during the Conference on Responsibility in Ukraine held in The Hague, the government of the Netherlands reported that the participants were working in a dialogue group that now, one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, materializes.
