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Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Jessika Roswall
Language: EN

As the European Council underlined, Russia must immediately ensure the safe return of Ukrainians forcibly transferred or deported to Russia, in particular children. In March, the European Council took note of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court a few days earlier. These arrest warrants involved not only Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, but also his commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the alleged war crime of the unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. To investigate these war crimes the ICC needs sufficient means and resources. Therefore, over the last year, EU Member States have provided additional support to the Court as its workload has increased. At a conference for justice ministers in London in March, many Member States indicated that they will continue to provide extra support in the near future. They also stated their intention to assist the ICC in setting up a field office in Kyiv. While the arrest warrants show how proceedings are progressing in the ICC, I want to stress that the fight against impunity cannot solely rely on the International Criminal Court. For instance, the discussions about the establishment of a mechanism to prosecute the crime of aggression are well under way. The International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in The Hague, which will be supported by Eurojust, is an important first step towards accountability for the crime of aggression. We hope to inaugurate the Centre before the end of June. In its Conclusions from December last year, the Council insisted on the need to maintain our efforts on several other aspects related to the core international crimes committed in Ukraine. This includes the support of national prosecutors and investigations both by Ukrainian authorities and by the authorities in the Member States. The Joint Investigation Team and the new Core International Crimes Evidence Database are two concrete examples of these efforts. I would also like to point out that Eurojust support for cooperation between the national level and the ICC seems to be working well. The Swedish Presidency will, together with the Commission, continue working to ensure a good coordination of all efforts to ensure accountability for the crimes committed in Ukraine. Thank you very much for your attention. I’m looking forward to the debate.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Rasa Juknevičienė
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

My mother was nine years old when Stalin’s communists deported her and her family to Siberia, just because her parents were teachers. Only half the family returned. She could not have imagined that the deportations would return to the European continent in her eyes again. Deportations returned because the crimes of the USSR were not condemned, the perpetrators never convicted internationally; they lied to the world until the fall of the USSR that they were deporting prostitutes and criminals and this was somehow justified. The same lies accompany the war against Ukraine now. We have been repeating for a long time, ‘never again’. That is why the ICC arrest warrant for Putin is also a hope that this time the crimes will be evaluated so that the ‘never again’ will not remain just words. However, this warrant is only the beginning. Those who behead prisoners will also be sentenced, and there must be a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine for Putin and his regime. By the way, I invite everyone to save the date: 14 June here in Strasbourg on the Louise Weiss Agora, the Parliament will commemorate forced Soviet deportations by reading the names of those deported. We will also pay respect to victims of deportations from Ukraine of today.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Pedro Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

The ICC took no notice of the Russian actions and acted.  So from here, I say, Mr Putin, you crossed so many lines with this war that you will be remembered for the worst reasons, but do not add one more horrible chapter to the history books, not one on kidnapping children. They are only children. Certainly not your enemies, not soldiers, for sure. They are innocent children that will be marked for life for your actions. If there is a shred of humanity in you, do something decent for once. Stop the kidnappings and return the children to their families. Even the Russian people that you are manipulating and repressing will be against you when they know what you have been doing. And rest assured, we will make sure that they know.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Petras Auštrevičius
Political group: Renew
Country: Lithuania
Language: EN

The Russian occupation authorities have forcibly and fraudulently deported or, to be more precise, kidnapped more than 20 000 Ukrainian children. These innocent children are being illegally adopted on an accelerated basis and re-educated into Russian citizens.  The Russian Government, which is still a member of the United Nations Security Council, unfortunately, is falsifying personal stories of Ukrainian children, changing their names and erasing their identities. None of us would like to find ourselves in the shoes of the parents of these children.  I call on the European Union and the international community to use all possible means to locate, identify and return Ukrainian children to their families, as well as to their homeland, Ukraine.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Sergey Lagodinsky
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: DE

Wenn ich höre, mit welcher Selbstverständlichkeit die Kinderrechtsbeauftragte der Russischen Föderation über die Adoption und Russifizierung – de facto oder real – der ukrainischen Kinder spricht, zeigt es, wie wichtig der Haftbefehl des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs ist. Es ist nicht nur ein Zeichen, es ist ein Instrument. Das ist ein Instrument gegen die Straflosigkeit, aber auch gegen das absolut fehlende Unrechtsbewusstsein in der Russischen Föderation – Unrechtsbewusstsein bezüglich Verschleppung und Zwangsadoption der ukrainischen Kinder, denn das bleibt ein Verbrechen. Und gemäß Artikel 2 der Völkermordkonvention ist das auch möglicherweise Bestandteil eines Genozids gegen das ukrainische Volk. Das muss man aussprechen. Das müssen die russischen Behörden und die russischen Bürgerinnen und Bürger auch hören. Denn dieser Angriff, der perverse Angriff auf die Ukraine, dauert an. Erst haben uns diese Handlungen die Sprache verschlagen. Aber je länger das andauert, desto mehr stumpfen auch wir ab. Und das darf nicht passieren. Dieser Haftbefehl ist eine Erinnerung an uns alle. Verbrechen bleiben Verbrechen, Verbrecher bleiben Verbrecher, straflos darf keiner werden. Deswegen wird auch dieses Parlament die Untersuchung der Strafverbrechen und die Strafverfolgung der Schuldigen immer unterstützen. Inhumanität und Kriminalität dürfen nicht normalisiert werden.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Nicola Procaccini
Political group: ECR
Country: Poland
Language: IT

Probabilmente non era necessario aggiungere queste parole all'orrore scatenato da Vladimir Putin, ma possono aiutarci a comprendere l'abisso di ciò che sta accadendo in Ucraina. Non esiste violenza più ignobile di quella perpetrata ai danni dei bambini. Per questo bisogna fare piena luce sulle accuse di deportazione di minori dalle aree occupate dell'Ucraina da parte della Federazione Russa. Tutti sappiamo che i mandati d'arresto internazionale spiccati nei confronti di Vladimir Putin e della Belova rappresentano dei meri strumenti di pressione politica, nulla di più. E purtroppo sappiamo che nella storia dell'umanità tutto questo è già successo altre volte e probabilmente accadrà di nuovo. Ciò che ha fatto e farà sempre la differenza è tra il rimanere indifferenti oppure no. Lasciatemi citare in conclusione Edmund Burke, il padre del pensiero conservatore: "Perché il male trionfi è sufficiente che i buoni non facciano nulla".
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Jaak Madison
Political group: ID
Country: France
Language: EN

So it’s a terribly huge amount of kids. And the main reason why they are being deported to Russia is to make them Russians, in the new Russian families. It has been several times in history at the same time, so it’s repeated again. Just, for example, like in the 40s, by the same Russians there were forcibly deported kids and women to Siberia – over 30 000 from Estonia. And 75 % of them were kids and children, and women.  Secondly, there are hundreds of evidence how the same soldiers have raped kids in the age from three. There are hundreds of evidence how those kids are raped and killed.  And, of course, now the outcome finally is that there is warrants by the ICC. But now the question is how we can force all the member states of the ICC to really follow the arrest warrant. There are member states 123 all over the world, except China and some other countries. But now we have heard by some member states that even if Vladimir Putin will go to their country, that they will not arrest this man.  There are some kind of difficult signals from South Africa, who should keep the BRICS meeting in August and they are still shaking that, oh, maybe if the Putin will come, maybe we will not arrest him.  There has to be consequences by the EU and by the Commission. If some of the member states of the ICC will not follow the arrest warrant, there has to come economic sanctions and there has to be really the outcome that we will limit our own donations to the all of the member states who we are donating, especially in Africa and the third countries, and who are responsible to follow the ICC rules. And if they are not following the rules and if they will not follow the arrest warrant, there has to be consequence economically there directly, because otherwise there is no point for the ICC or for international rules. Why we should follow them, if there are no consequences.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Malin Björk
Political group: The Left
Country: Czechia
Language: SV

De konkreta brott som Putin och hans medarbetare åtalas för är bortförandet av tusentals ukrainska barn till Ryssland. Ukrainska myndigheter rapporterar att det rör sig om tusentals barn som har tagits från Ukraina till Ryssland och att bara strax över 300 av de här barnen faktiskt har fått komma hem till Ukraina igen.  Vi ska reagera med alla medel som står till buds, och de internationella instrument som vi har – inklusive ICC – måste användas. Samtidigt som den här brottmålsprocessen pågår måste vi se till att få hem de bortförda barnen. Därför ska de här familjerna få allt vårt stöd, men också de organisationer och institutioner som jobbar för att få hem barnen måste få vårt stöd och vi måste vara aktiva i den processen. Barnen ska hem. Jag hoppas att det här åtalet mot Putin följs av andra åtal, för det här är inte de enda krigsbrott som det brutala anfallskriget har medfört i Ukraina. Vi vet att kvinnor har utsatts för sexuellt våld och övergrepp i Ukraina av ryska armén. De här brotten måste man också ställas till svars för. Kvinnorna, precis som barnen, ska få upprättelse och de ska få vårt stöd. Vi ska också fokusera på dem som utsätts och på offren.  Jag tycker att det är viktigt att höra från kommissionen och rådet att vi också stöttar ICC. Det ska vara en stark institution – EU har alltid varit en stark aktör bakom ICC – så att den får resurser och legitimitet att utreda sådana här brott. Nu visar domstolen att man går på Putin, som är den högsta ansvariga för det här brutala anfallskriget och som begår krigsbrott – och vi vet det. ICC ska stärkas ytterligare. Vi ska få med fler länder och vi ska se till att inga krigsbrott som begås i Ukraina i dag kommer att bli ostraffade.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Márton Gyöngyösi
Political group: NI
Country: Poland
Language: HU

Elnök Úr! A gyermekek tömeges deportálása a népirtás egyik formája. Ezért üdvözlöm a Nemzetközi Büntetőbíróság döntését, és úgy gondolom, hogy minden civilizált embernek egyet kell vele értenie. Az Orbán-rezsim képviselőinek, a Fidesz-KDNP politikusainak azonban semmi problémájuk nincs Vlagyimir Putyin népirtó politikájával. Ők azok, akik miközben magukat családbarátnak nevezik, külföldön pedig magukat a konzervatív politika letéteményesének hazudják, minden követ megmozgatnak, hogy Vlagyimir Putyint és barátait kimentsék a szankciók alól, külügyminiszterük pedig szinte hetente jár ki Moszkvába. Meglehet, hogy a gyermekjogok védelme terén van még tennivaló a nyugati világban, ám az orosz világban a gyermekeknek most lebombázott otthonok, megerőszakolt anyák, tömegsírba lőtt apák és deportálások jutnak. Orbán és hívei szerint pedig ez rendben is van. Van azonban egy másik, egy normális Magyarország, amely az áldozat mellett áll, és elítéli az orosz agressziót.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Michael Gahler
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: DE

Herr Präsident! Ich bin dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof und insbesondere auch Karim Khan sehr dankbar, dass er seine Aufgabe wahrnimmt, russische Kriegsverbrechen registriert und die Verantwortlichen benennt. Wladimir Putin und Marija Lwowa-Belowa sind auch in diesem speziellen Fall persönlich und politisch verantwortlich für die Verbrechen, die wir hier heute speziell diskutieren. Es ist infam, wenn ausgerechnet der Aggressor den Eindruck erwecken will, Kinder durch die illegale Deportation zu retten. Wir sehen Fernsehberichte, wo ukrainische Kinder feierlich russisch eingebürgert werden oder in anderer Form russifiziert werden. Einige der 361 Kinder, die bisher in die Ukraine zurückgebracht werden konnten, haben Details hierzu berichtet. Russifizierung heute – als Deutscher erinnere ich mich mit Scham an die Zeit der deutschen Besatzung – nicht nur in der Ukraine –, wo man ähnliche Praktiken angewandt hat, „arisierbare“ Kinder deportiert hat und dann zu Deutschen gemacht hat oder es zumindest versucht hat. Schrecklich, dass sich Geschichte wiederholt. Ich erwarte, dass alle Staaten, die das Statut des ICC ratifiziert haben, ausgestellte Haftbefehle auch umsetzen. Aber bevor das möglich wird, müssen wir unseren Beitrag zur Verhinderung von Straflosigkeit leisten, und das heißt, die zuständigen ukrainischen Behörden und die Ermittler des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs dabei zu unterstützen, die Fälle von Deportation und anderer Verbrechen zu registrieren und Beweise zu sichern. Ich hoffe auch, dass viele der 141 Staaten der UNO, die sich gegen den Angriffskrieg ausgesprochen haben, hierbei aktiv Beiträge leisten.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Nacho Sánchez Amor
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: ES

Señor presidente, en materia de exigencia de responsabilidad por la guerra de agresión de Rusia contra Ucrania, se ha hecho ya un notable esfuerzo en cuanto a las bases jurídicas para la persecución penal. La recopilación y custodia de pruebas ya está en marcha en la Corte Penal Internacional de La Haya para este caso de los niños deportados y para otros paralelos.  Pero esta persecución penal tiene que ir acompañada de una perspectiva a medio plazo: la debida reparación de los perjuicios, incluidos los daños personales, no solo físicos. Por eso quiero llamar la atención de los colegas sobre un proyecto de nuestra organización vecina, el Consejo de Europa. Este va a crear en un mes un registro de daños con vistas a reclamar su reparación a Rusia. Financiado con aportaciones de los Estados miembros, muchos de los nuestros, y creo que la Unión Europea debería sumarse, van a recolectar en una oficina en La Haya y en otra oficina en Kiev las declaraciones de daños sufridos por los ciudadanos que las instituciones ucranianas consideren oportunas.  Y reitero que el proyecto incluye no solo daños físicos o daños en la propiedad, sino también daños personales. Y aquí deben estar comprendidos, por supuesto, los casos de los niños que deben ser devueltos, claro, y cuyas familias deben ser compensadas por el Estado responsable de tantas brutalidades.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Hilde Vautmans
Political group: Renew
Country: Romania
Language: EN

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear Minister, children are the most vulnerable in wartime. But what we now see is madness. Russia has deported over 20 000 innocent children from Ukraine. As a mother of two, I wonder, what if it was my son? What if it was my daughter taken away from me? And we know the brutal facts of Russian officials forcing young children in re-education camps to ratify them. Let’s be crystal clear. Deporting children of war is a war crime. And I therefore welcome the arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court against Putin. I also welcome the initiative of President von der Leyen to organise a conference on this tragedy, and as Co-Chair of the Intergroup on Children’s Rights, I can only say ‘you have our full support’. Organise it – we will help you. Colleagues, the most important thing we have to say here today, as the European Parliament: we know where a lot of children are so bring them home. Take them back to their families. That’s our duty.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Markéta Gregorová
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, the war does not have a human face nor spare the lives of anyone, including children. However, after the atrocities of the 20th century, we made a social contract and set the lines of international law that shouldn’t be crossed.  Nevertheless, it seems that for the Kremlin, history is not something we should learn from. Children are forcefully taken and deported to Russian camps. Then their fate lies either in forced adoption into Russian families, pro-Russian re-education programmes or military training. And all this is sanctified by the Russian Government as its officials of all levels are involved in removals, camp operations and the prevention of their return to Ukraine.  To be frank, international law has been a challenging and often ineffective tool. However, it is our responsibility to ensure that these and any other deplorable actions will be punished and not repeated. When we find culprits of criminal offences, the case is usually closed. Why block the door here?
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Witold Jan Waszczykowski
Political group: ECR
Country: Romania
Language: PL

Panie Przewodniczący! Rosyjskiej agresji na Ukrainę towarzyszą liczne zbrodnie wojenne. Najbardziej haniebne są: porywanie, deportacja dzieci i ich rusyfikacja. Polska zna to ze swojego doświadczenia z II wojny światowej i okupacji niemieckiej. Stąd podjęliśmy inicjatywę wspólnie z Komisją. Co należy robić? Kontynuować wyroki Trybunału, aby identyfikować sprawców, ludzi, instytucje, a takie zapewnić dostęp i obecność w Rosji Międzynarodowego Czerwonego Krzyża, Lekarzy bez Granic i, przede wszystkim, UNICEF-u, który może nam dostarczać informacji o sytuacji tych dzieci.  I wreszcie kwestia dzieci musi znaleźć się w 11. pakiecie sankcji wobec Rosji.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Anna Bonfrisco
Political group: ID
Country: Belgium
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, grazie signora Commissaria per le Sue parole.  Dalla coscienza morale collettiva dello Statuto di Roma della Corte penale internazionale, che richiama l'eredità condivisa che scaturisce dalle culture dei popoli della terra, conseguono i due mandati di arresto per Vladimir Putin e Maria Lvova-Belova per i presunti crimini di deportazione di bambini dai territori occupati dell'Ucraina nella Federazione Russa. È vietato dal diritto internazionale alle potenze che occupano di trasferire civili dal territorio in cui vivono ad altri territori, e i bambini godono di una protezione speciale ai sensi della Convenzione di Ginevra, ma il loro arresto dipenderà dalla cooperazione internazionale. Se il presidente Putin si recherà in Sudafrica per il vertice dei BRICS nel prossimo mese di agosto, quel paese avrà davanti a sé la sfida di scegliere se stare con la comunità internazionale, rispettando le regole comuni di convivenza tra i popoli, o proteggere un uomo ricercato per gravissimi crimini. L'adesione del Sudafrica allo Statuto di Roma ci incoraggia a rafforzare tutti gli strumenti necessari al rispetto dell'ordine internazionale basato sulle regole. L'Unione europea contribuisca a salvare quei bambini che sono parte del futuro dell'Europa.
Debate: Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
Date: WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL 2023
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, all war is criminal and children its most innocent of victims. Exaggeration isn’t necessary. Even one case of the mistreatment of children is deadly serious. The UN, which deals only in facts, has verified that 16 000 children have been horribly mistreated and concludes that this amounts to a war crime. In an ideal world, all war crimes would be investigated and prosecution cases developed as quickly as this one. But we don’t live in that world. How many Palestinian children’s lives have been ruined and traumatised by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza? How many Yemeni children have been orphaned and starved? These are war crimes, too. But naming them in here makes you a voice in the wilderness. Of course, the rank hypocrisy of the West is no justification for Russia’s violation of the rights of thousands of innocent children and their families. And neither do Russian crimes justify ours. The inconsistent application of justice is not justice: it just erodes the rule of law and makes might being right. There’s been a lot of triumphalism about the ICC warrant, but there’s zero chance of that being served. Russia, like the US, isn’t a party to the Rome Statute. There’s going to be no justice from that for the victim. The only way we can help the victims of this war is to use all our strength to bring it to an end and allow these innocent victims to rebuild their destroyed lives.