A trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is “a possibility,” said French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna in a Paris interview published on Thursday evening.

“We are working with the ICC and the entire international community to ensure that there is no impunity for perpetrators and those responsible for the war,” Catherine Colonna said, adding that the ICC understands the chain of responsibility “to the highest level”. She also recalled that this court had already implicated heads of state.

“I cannot predict that this will be the case for Vladimir Putin, but it is a possibility once the facts and responsibilities are settled,” she said.

The EU Commission wants a special court

The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction only over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine, and not over “crimes of aggression” by Russia, as Moscow and Kiev did not sign the Treaty of Rome establishing the court.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed the creation of a UN-backed special court to try Russia’s crimes of aggression against Ukraine. “The International Criminal Court is investigating, she will say the law,” commented Catherine Colonna.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the French minister also believes that “the preliminary balance sheet for Russia is negative.” Moscow “is suffering a strategic, political and, I might add, moral defeat,” she also commented. “The spectacle given by the Russian President on Tuesday in excess and in falsification of reality bears witness to this. Russia has isolated itself. »

In view of the deadlocked conflict, she nevertheless believes that Vladimir Putin should be addressed “when it makes sense and is necessary”. “Because it was about enabling international control over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant,” she stressed.

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A year after the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, on the anniversary of the invasion decided by Moscow, the focus is on the peace plan that China is supposed to present. In the document on the political solution to the crisis, China will “repeat previous positions” and “also take into account the reasonable concerns of all parties, hoping to provide the international community with the broadest possible terrain on the Ukrainian issue,” he said. He expected the head of Chinese diplomacy Wang Yi, quoted by the Xinhua agency, at the end of his mission to Europe and Russia.

The US expects China to present the announced 12-point peace plan for a political settlement of the war in Ukraine in the next few hours, US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told the Washington Post. “Let’s wait and see what the Chinese bring to the table, it is expected to be announced,” Nuland predicted on Feb. 24, claiming he doesn’t know how it will be presented.

A meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine is scheduled for Friday, which will also be attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and which cannot be ruled out. Nuland then stressed the importance of any agreement to end the war for a just and lasting peace: “It cannot simply be a cynical truce giving Russians time to go home, rest, refuel and return. But if Xi Jinping can get Putin and his army out of Ukraine, I think we will all applaud and give peace a prize.”

According to the Beijing line illustrated by Wang Yia, should China and the European Union “choose” the path of cooperation, “these efforts are also of great importance for a political solution to the Ukraine question”. “Friendship is the key to China’s policy towards the EU, with cooperation as the overriding goal,” Wang said, according to which “if China and the EU choose dialogue and cooperation, the confrontation between the blocs is out of the question; if both If both sides choose peace and stability, there will be no new Cold War; if both sides choose openness and win-win cooperation, global development and prosperity will have a chance.

“China and the EU — said the director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Commission — should exclude external interference, properly manage differences, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation to bring stability to the turbulent international situation, and these efforts are also for policy of great importance to the solution of the Ukrainian question”.

On the Ukraine crisis: “China has always been firmly on the side of peace and dialogue, on the right side of history”. Over the past year, Beijing has “actively contributed to advancing de-escalation and supporting all efforts leading to a peaceful solution to the crisis”.

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Lula began his third term with a willingness to bring Brazil back into the discussions of the main global forums

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during a meeting with Portuguese Chancellor João Gomes Cravinho

power agenda President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) is scheduled to travel to Angola and Senegal in early May. The government is still evaluating whether other countries on the African continent will be part of the itinerary. According to g1, the trip to Africa would take place after Lula’s trip to Portugal, beginning on April 20th.

During a visit to Washington, the Brazilian president commented on his desire to travel to the continent in 2023 as a “demonstration” that Brazil wants to resume its strong ties with Africa. “Brazil owes much of its culture to the African continent. It’s a debt that cannot be paid in cash, it must be paid in exchange for science and technology,” Lula said in the US capital.

In the two mandates in which he headed the presidency of the republic (20032010), Lula had as one of his foreign policy priorities the strategy of SouthSouth cooperation. In a scenario characterized by the reconfiguration of international relations, Brazil then bet on coalitions, in search of new markets and on strengthening political and economic ties with countries of the socalled “Global South”, such as African nations.

Lula began his third term with a willingness to bring Brazil back into the discussions of the main global forums.

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In January, the President traveled to Argentina and Uruguay. And then he met with the President of the United States, Joe Biden.

Lula is also scheduled to attend the 18th G20 Summit in New Delhi, India in September.

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