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PARIS (Reuters) – Forty-five member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have asked the Vienna-based organization to investigate allegations of serious violations against the population Ukrainian civilian population, the French Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.
“Because of the extremely serious repercussions of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine on the Ukrainian civilian population, and in particular on children, 45 OSCE participating States, including France, invoked on 30 March 2023 the Moscow Mechanism of the OSCE,” wrote the Quai d’Orsay in a statement.
“This mechanism aims to investigate allegations of serious violations of commitments made by States within the framework of the OSCE and to identify actions to remedy them,” he said.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, thousands of children have been torn from their families in the territories of eastern Ukraine occupied by the Russian army and transferred to Russia in order to be adopted there.
Seized of these allegations of crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two weeks ago an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin and against the Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child, Maria Alexeïevna Lvova-Belova, who oversees the Ukrainian child transfer program.
(Written by Tangi Salaün, edited by Jean Terzian)
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