October 21, 2022
Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Serhiy Holovaty (online) took part in the international conference on International Law against Genocide, which took place on Friday, October 21, 2022 in Berlin.
The conference was organised by the German non-governmental organization Center for Liberal Modernity (LibMod) with the aim of drawing attention to the Russian war in Ukraine and discussing the appropriate reaction of the international community. During the conference, the participants discussed Russian war crimes committed on the territory of our country in the light of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It was also about Russia's liability for repeated violation of international law.
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as well as Judge Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Tobias Lindner, Federal Foreign Minister of State (Germany), Anton Korynevych, Ambassador at-large of Ukraine, Oleksandr Merezhko, Member of the Verhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Interparliamentary Cooperation of the Verhovna Rada of Ukraine, Sir Adam Roberts, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice-President of the German Bundestag, Member of the Parliament, Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, Permanent Fellow at the Vienna Institute for the Human Sciences, Andrews Kubilius, Member of the European Parliament and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, John E. Herbst, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Centre, former US Ambassador to Ukraine delivered their speeches during the conference.
Representatives of international organizations, international experts, representatives of Ukrainian state authorities and public organizations, scientists and human rights defenders attended the event.