Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that his country will not support the proposal to establish a special international court for alleged Russian crimes committed during the war in Ukraine, stressing that Bulgaria has the right to its own political position on this issue.
Radev stated that such a “military tribunal” would only make sense in situations where the state has been defeated, capitulated and its leader has been arrested, adding that he currently does not see that such conditions have been met or that they will be created soon.
The initiative to establish a special court for the crime of aggression against Ukraine received the support of 34 member states of the Council of Europe, the European Union, as well as Australia and Costa Rica, which last week expressed their willingness to join the future mechanism.
The idea of establishing the court was initiated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who last year signed an agreement with the Council of Europe – an organization for the protection of human rights that gathers 46 member states, including Ukraine.
Bulgaria, which has been governed by a center-left government since early May, refused to join the joint declaration. Radev, a former military pilot and general, was often labeled as a pro-Russian politician earlier in his presidency.
In addition to Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and Malta did not sign the declaration, even though they are members of the European Union.
(Vijesti.ba)
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