Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In my previous role as Taoiseach, we had been pursuing the entire issue of accountability for Russia. It is complex legally but it is one area where Ireland feels it can make a contribution. I outlined earlier the different decisions we have taken, for example, that the Russian Federation should cease to be a member at the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe; that we submitted a request for leave to intervene as a third party in the proceedings brought by Ukraine against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights; and that we were one of over 40 states to refer the situation in Ukraine to the office of the ICC prosecutor to pursue accountability for alleged atrocity crimes committed in Ukraine. We have also filed a declaration of intervention at the International Court of Justice in Ukraine's case against Russia. There is no doubt that the entire approach of Russia has been to target and indiscriminately attack residential neighbourhoods and civilian infrastructure, designed to terrorise the people of Ukraine. It is a war of terror that has created the migration crisis, the energy crisis and the humanitarian crisis.

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