Justice Minister Toni Gogu today called on MPs, during a plenary session, to ratify the Convention establishing the International Claims Commission for Ukraine.
With the ratification of the convention, Albania becomes the tenth country to approve the mechanism. A total of 25 states are required for it to enter into force.
According to the minister, around 65,000 claims have been filed with the Register of Damage, which the Commission will review and determine compensation for.
“Damage that is merely recorded remains a memory. Damage that is assessed and compensated becomes justice,” Gogu said.
He added that Albania will make an annual financial contribution, which may subsequently be claimed from the Russian Federation.
The minister also commented on the first-instance verdict issued by the Specialist Chambers against four former KLA leaders, announced yesterday in The Hague. He said the ruling was received “with deep disappointment.”
Gogu stressed that an appeal is the appropriate avenue for any challenge and that the KLA’s war “was a war of liberation, just and necessary.”
“We do not support international justice only when we like its decisions. But neither do we remain silent when they disappoint us,” he said.
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