Austria Has Joined The Special Tribunal Against Putin
5- 16.04.2026, 12:20
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Twenty countries now participate in the agreement.
Austria has announced its intention to join the Expanded Partial Agreement on the Special Tribunal to Investigate the Crime of Russian Aggression against Ukraine.
The country's Foreign Ministry announced this.
Austria has thus become the 20th country to announce its participation in the agreement.
"Accountability is a key focus of Austria's foreign policy. Without accountability, there can be no lasting peace in Ukraine," the Foreign Ministry said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga welcomed Vienna's decision to join the agreement.
"I am grateful to Austria and my colleague Beate Meinl-Reisinger for once again proving that neutrality does not mean indifference. On the contrary, accountability is crucial to ensure lasting peace on our continent," the minister wrote.
Sibiga said earlier that Ukraine had managed to reach the "legal minimum" of the required number of Council of Europe member states needed to vote on the creation of the Special Tribunal.
This vote is possible at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on May 14-15 in Chisinau.
It became known that the readiness to join the Extended Partial Agreement, which will allow to launch the