In framework of pernanent co-operaiton with UN structures our Associaiton sent submission to Special Rapporteur on the human right to a healthy environment for his report oj issue “Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment”, that was presented at the General Assembly.
ARC’s submission, published on UN web-sources now, reminded that some Investor-State Dispute Settlement were initiated before 2022 against Russia as occupying state that violated the bilateral investment treaty with Ukraine, dated 27 November 1998, illegally seizing property in the Crimea including so-called “nationalization” processes since 2014, including the cases of “Naftogaz” and “Oschadbank”.
ARC reminded to Rapporteur that Russian aggression violated development all energy sector in Crimea, connected with right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, not only natural gas excavation and usage and solar power plants exploitation, but issues of wind energy also, pointing on relevant Crimean cases, pending in the European Court of Human Rights, according to open data sourses.
Regarding destruction of Kakhovka HPP ARC’s submisison stressed that this crime of Russia is not only an act of terrorism, ecocide, but also a war crime in accordance with the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians during War of 1949, its Additional Protocol of 1977, as well as a violation of the UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Hostile Use of Means of Influence on the Natural Environment of 1977.
