Mr. President,

The Kingdom of the Netherlands aligns itself with the EU statement.
We thank the High Commissioner for his update and the presentation of the Secretary General’s report.

Almost 900 days after Russia launched its unprovoked and unjustified full scale aggression against Ukraine, and ten years after it annexed Crimea, the SG’s report confirms once more what was brought to light by the CoI and the HRMMU.

Russia has instituted a climate of fear in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The patterns of atrocities, which they fine-tuned during 10 years of annexation of Crimea, have now been exported en masse to newly occupied territories: arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, summary execution, Russification, illegal transfer and deportation of civilians, including children. 
These violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law are perpetrated in an atmosphere of impunity. 

This is unacceptable.

That is why the Netherlands organized, together with Ukraine and the European Commission, a ministerial conference on Restoring Justice for Ukraine in The Hague last April.
That is why we support the work of the ICC and welcome the recent issuance of two additional arrest warrants. 

We call on Russia to immediately withdraw its troops from Ukrainian land and end the atrocities it commits in the Ukrainian regions it still occupies now.

Mr. High Commissioner,
What more could be done to halt the illegal transfer of persons, including children, and to ensure their safe return home in Ukraine?

Thank you.