Balkan States Join Ukraine War Justice Declaration

04/04/2024

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Romania were among the international signatories to a political declaration on restoring justice for Ukraine on April 2, which urges Russia to “immediately cease its war of aggression.”

The declaration, signed at the Restoring Justice for Ukraine international conference in The Hague, also calls on Russia to follow the International Court of Justice’s order from March 2022, which demanded halt to the invasion.

Serbia, Russia’s closest political friend in the Balkans, did not sign up to the declaration. Serbia has also repeatedly declined to join the EU’s sanctions on Moscow despite being a candidate for membership of the bloc. Kosovo also did not sign up to the declaration.

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