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“a matter of good governance rather than legal duty.”
You know what? Good Governance should be a legal duty. What the heck is this argument? Do folks who live in Toronto have to worry about not getting clean water because Canada has no legal obligation to provide it to them either?
More evidence that the judgement from Southwark is all out of proportion and unreasonable.
Would it be unreasonable to ask to move to another country?
This. Pretty much everyone with a legal degree thinks this case is junk and should be mocked (as per the CNBC article). Alas, it’s filled in the one court that would say otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping at it’s lowest…
Exact same experience here!
Anyone promoting American style health care here in Canada has either never experienced that gong show or is independently wealthy enough not to have to think about the costs.
This messages needs to be spread far and wide.
This is a bit nuanced and complicated. You’re right in spirit of course.
Technically, those were the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union. After it broke up, operational control of these weapons remained in Moscow as per https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/could-ukraine-have-retained-soviet-nuclear-weapons/
So Ukraine had physical possession, but they couldn’t have turned them on from day 1 of independence. And if Ukraine had refused to return them, it seems it is an open question if they could have circumvented the security measures or not to gain control over them.
Ironically, my understanding from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2015.1026091 is that part of the reason Ukraine agreed to give up those nukes was in return for having not only security assurances, but to have those assurances extended to Crimea. This can be viewed and exchanging the nukes for retaining Crimea.
Considering what we know now… that might not have been the best deal. This almost has me asking, why not both? (Both NATO membership and nukes)
If anything, what’s surprising is that only 18 have fled so far…
So disappointed to discover that BBC updated the headline and the article (and no more than six hours later)…
New headline: Ukraine calls on Mongolia to arrest Putin ahead of visit
An ICC spokesperson told the BBC that Mongolian officials “have the obligation” to abide by ICC regulations, but clarified that this did not necessarily mean an arrest had to take place.
The agreement says in some circumstances, states may be exempted from the obligation to carry out an arrest where they would be forced to “breach a treaty obligation” with another state or where it would violate “diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third state”.
I agree. They deserved one of two things in returned for giving up their nukes.
NATO membership.
Or a mutual defense treaty of the style seen in South Korea and Japan - i.e. Ukraine should come under the US nuclear umbrella.
