The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday mostly rejected Ukraine’s claims that Russia was financing “terrorism” in eastern Ukraine, saying only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches.
And the ICJ didn’t dispute that. They said that the convention the case was brought under defines “financing” as money only, so supplying weapons and training camps doesn’t qualify as “financing”.
Your comment is a little it disingenuous isn’t it. Or did you just not bother reading the article?
This case predates Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The ICJ will decide on Friday whether it has jurisdiction to rule in a separate case over that war.
The court said that only cash transfers could be considered as support for alleged terrorist groups under the terms of the international convention on terrorism financing.
This “does not include the means used to commit acts of terrorism, including weapons or training camps,” the court ruled.
“Consequently, the alleged supply of weapons to various armed groups operating in Ukraine… fall outside the material scope of the ICSFT” convention, said the court.
But I was told Russia was a group of terrorists who had no justification for their actions except to inflict maximum pain to civilians!
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me that you didn’t read the article
And the ICJ didn’t dispute that. They said that the convention the case was brought under defines “financing” as money only, so supplying weapons and training camps doesn’t qualify as “financing”.
Your comment is a little it disingenuous isn’t it. Or did you just not bother reading the article?