Aust military court faces stiff resources challenge after Russian arrest of former president on charges including treason
Russia has accused the German government of violating German and NATO military laws by letting its forces detain ousted president Viktor Yanukovych after he fled the capital, Kiev.
In an open letter on Thursday, the defence ministry called for the prosecution of the former Ukrainian president and said he is still a prisoner under Germany’s laws.
It said the military court of the Ukrainian parl우리카지노iament in Kiev has not taken any measures to try the former president in Ukraine.
After a month of negotiations and visits by the US, Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, met with his foreign minister and opposition leaders at the foreign ministry in Kiev on Thursday to offer him political asylum. Yanukovych gave his support to the offer, which was accepted by US secretary of state John Kerry and other EU leaders.
“We have nothing to fear and everything to gain if this offer is accepted,” Obama said in a statement. “The Obama administration continues to stand by our European partners. The United States of America’s commitment to democracy and rule of law is unwavering.”
The Ukrainian foreign ministry said that duringjarvees.com the meeting Yanukovych said he understood “the consequences of not reaching a political solution, and of the possibility of military solution”바카라사이트. The ministry said that according to the agreement between Yanukovych and Russia, a former president of Ukraine can go home and the constitution does not extend amnesty to people who are found guilty of offences.
Yanukovych’s wife Mykola said the former president told her that the US government did not have any evidence of crimes committed before the overthrow of Ukraine’s former president, she told the Associated Press.
Yanukovych is now the subject of criminal proceedings in the German army court of the Ukrainian parliament, which is a key parliamentary building in Kiev. He has said he was never in Germany and his departure was not related to any criminal case.
Yanukovych fled to Russia on 26 February and was picked up on the border of neighbouring Belarus. He was then taken in a convoy on a private car, accompanied by an armed guards who tried to push his body towards the Russian border on the Russian side of the border. The Ukrainian parliament voted unanimously, in favour of his detention last Thursday, in a snap election that had been expected shortly.
Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, told the German news agency DPA on Wednesday that the former president was seized by armed guards and that he remains in custody.
Avakov accused Russia’s main military court in Crime