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The
USSR
was
a
party
to
the
London
Agreement
of
8
August
1945
by
which
the
Charter
of
the
International
Military
Tribunal
was
enacted
(
see
Kononov
v.
Latvia
[
GC
]
,
no
.
36376/04
,
ECHR
2010
,
§
§
116
-
17
)
.
Pursuant
to
Article
6
(
c
)
of
the
Charter
,
extermination
,
deportation
and
other
inhuman
acts
against
any
civilian
population
,
including
persecutions
on
political
grounds
,
were
defined
as
crimes
against
humanity
.
On
11
December
1946
the
General
Assembly
of
the
United
Nations
condemned
the
crime
of
genocide
by
adopting
Resolution
96
(
I
)
.
The
1948
United
Nations
Convention
on
the
Prevention
and
Punishment
of
the
Crime
of
Genocide
(
Genocide
Convention
)
,
affirming
the
principles
of
international
law
recognised
by
that
Resolution
,
was
adopted
unanimously
by
the
UN
General
Assembly
on
9
December
1948
.
The
USSR
signed
the
Genocide
Convention
on
16
December
1949
.
After
twenty
instruments
of
ratification
or
accession
had
been
deposited
,
the
Convention
came
into
force
on
12
January
1951
.
In
its
Advisory
Opinion
on
the
Reservations
to
the
Convention
on
the
Prevention
and
Punishment
of
the
Crime
of
Genocide
,
ICJ
Reports
1951
,
the
International
Court
of
Justice
(
ICJ
)
pointed
out
that
the
principles
underlying
the
Genocide
Convention
are
principles
which
are
recognised
by
civilised
nations
as
binding
on
States
,
even
without
any
conventional
obligation
(
see
paragraph
80
of
the
present
judgment
)
.
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