Arbitrators have been appointed to judge Ukraine and Russia
President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Jin-Hyun Paik appointed three judges in the arbitration proceedings of Ukraine against the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in the communique of the International Tribunal.
“By notification dated April 1, 2019, Ukraine began arbitration proceedings against the Russian Federation on the basis of Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In accordance with Article 3(b) of Annex VII to the Convention, the notification nominated Christopher Greenwood (United Kingdom) as a member of the arbitral tribunal. In accordance with Article 3 (c) of Annex VII to the Convention, the Russian Federation subsequently appointed Vladimir Vladimirovich Golitsyn as a member of the arbitration tribunal,” the communiqué said.
It is noted that in a letter dated June 12, the Agent of Ukraine informed the Chairman of the Tribunal that the parties could not agree on the appointment of three members of the arbitration tribunal, and asked him to continue their nomination and appoint one of them as chairman.
“On 10 July 2019, after consultation with the parties, President Pike appointed Donald McRae (Canada), Rudiger Wolfrum (Germany) and Gudmundur Eiriksson (Iceland) as judges in arbitration proceedings brought by Ukraine against the Russian Federation in relation to the dispute over the detention of three Ukrainian military courts and the arrest twenty-four soldiers present on board. President Pike also appointed Mr. McRae as Chairman of the Arbitration Tribunal,” the document states.
Let us recall that on May 25, the International Tribunal ordered Russia to release the Ukrainian sailors.
On November 25, 2018, border ships of the FSB of the Russian Federation fired on and arrested three vessels of the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, consisting of two small armored artillery boats “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol” and the raid tug “Yany Kapu”, which carried out a transition from the port of Odessa that was not coordinated with the Russian Federation in the Black Sea to the port of Mariupol in the Azov Sea. After this, 24 Ukrainian sailors were arrested in Crimea, then they were moved to Russian pre-trial detention centers in Moscow.
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