US Pushing Monitoring Body to Extend Russian War-Crimes Inquest
The OSCE already did one fact-finding mission in March; U.S. diplomats are whipping up support for another.
PATRICK TUCKER | JUNE 2, 2022
UKRAINE STATE DEPARTMENT RUSSIA EUROPE
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—The United States is working to persuade fellow members of Europe’s largest multinational security organization to gather more evidence of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, a U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
The proposed fact-finding mission by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, would follow a similar one in March. It could help international prosecutors launch cases against Russian officials, said Mike Carpenter, U.S. ambassador to OSCE.
“We're getting ready to deploy another fact-finding mission precisely to look at evidence of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity because I think we're getting to that level now,” Carpenter said in an interview at the U.S. consulate in Vienna, Austria.
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