Aggression – the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State – is back as a norm, it seems. Some view this serious violation of international law as the “most important crime”, because all other crimes derive from it. Before the most recent wars in the Middle East and Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland, what put the crime of aggression back on the table, of course, was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Last May it was announced that a special tribunal would be created to address this crime, through an agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe. Next month, a new working session will be held in New York to review the scope of the crime of aggression at the International Criminal Court. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts asked Gabija Grigaite Daugirde, deputy foreign minister of Lithuania, and Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein ambassador to the United Nations, to discuss these two topics.
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