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Documents on the Consequences of the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Namely the Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Register of Damage Caused

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2024

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Bill Bowring is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom, and a practicing barrister who has taken many cases to the Strasbourg Court, especially against Russia. In 2002, he founded the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre in partnership with the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow (now liquidated by the Russian government).
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Following a debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on January 26, 2023 (7th sitting), under the urgent procedure, a text was adopted by 100 votes in favour, none against, and one abstention: a Resolution on the “Legal and human rights aspects of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine.”

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International Legal Materials , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , April 2024 , pp. 194 - 212
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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Endnotes

1 Resolution 2482 (2023) (Jan. 26, 2023), https://pace.coe.int/en/files/31620/pdf.

2 Doc. 15689 (Jan. 24, 2023, https://pace.coe.int/files/31576/pdf.

3 Switzerland, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

4 Resolution CM/Res (2023)3 (May 12, 2023), https://rm.coe.int/0900001680ab2595.

5 Resolution CM/Res (2023)5 (Sept. 27, 2023), https://rm.coe.int/0900001680aca7eb.

6 Press Release, Committee of Ministers, Russia ceases to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 Sept. 2022 (Mar. 23, 2022), https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/russia-ceases-to-be-a-party-to-the-european-convention-of-human-rights-on-16-september-2022#:~:text=Newsroom&text=Following%20its%20expulsion%20from%20the,by%20the%20Committee%20of%20Ministers.

7 Andrew Drzemczewski and Rick Lawson, Exclusion of the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe and the ECHR: An Overview, Baltic Y.B. Int'l L. vol. 21 (forthcoming), currently accessible at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4458281. PACE has also posted “Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine: special page,” which has many references. See https://pace.coe.int/en/pages/ukraine.

8 Doc 15689, supra note 2, Explanatory memorandum, by Mr Cottier, p.8, ¶¶ 2–3.

9 The Sub-Committee report was unanimously adopted by the Committee on January 24, 2023 (see Doc. 15689, supra note 2. The other members were Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), Erkin Gadirli (Azerbaijan, EC/DA), George Katrougalos (Greece, UEL), Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE), Arkadiusz Mularczyk (Poland, EC/DA), Davo Ivo Stier (Croatia, EPP/CD), Ingvild Wetrhus Thorsvik (Norway, ALDE), and Emmanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD).

10 Id. ¶ 73.

11 Resolution CM/Res (2023)3, supra note 4.

12 G.A. Res. A/ES-11/L/6 (Nov. 7, 2022), https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/N2267912.pdf.

13 G.A. Res. A/RES/ES-11/5 (Nov. 14, 2022), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3994481/files/A_RES_ES-11_5-EN.pdf.

14 Chiara Giorgetti, Markiyan Kliuchkovsky, Patrick Pearsall and Jeremy K. Sharpe, Historic UNGA Resolution Calls for Ukraine Reparations, JustSecurity (Nov. 16, 2022), https://www.justsecurity.org/84146/historic-unga-resolution-calls-for-ukraine-reparations/.

15 Resolution CM/Res (2023)3, supra note 4.

16 Chiara Giorgetti and Patrick Pearsall, Compensation Mechanism for Ukraine: The Council of Europe Establishes A Register of Damages Caused by Russia's Aggression Against Ukraine, JustSecurity (July 27, 2023), https://www.justsecurity.org/87395/significant-step-in-creation-of-international-compensation-mechanism-for-ukraine/#:~:text=Resolution%20CM%2FRes(2023)3%20was%20adopted%20by%20the,Against%20Ukraine%20(the%20Agreement). See also Council of Europe Summit establishes register of war damage for Ukraine, CMS Law-Now (May 24, 2023), https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2023/05/council-of-europe-summit-establishes-register-of-war-damage-for-ukraine.

17 Aleksandra Mężykowska, Establishment of the Registry of Damage: The first element in ensuring Russia's financial accountability for the aggression against Ukraine, 12 ESIL Reflections 3 (2023), https://esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mezykowska.pdf.