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ST. PETERSBURG, November 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia would not comply
with the ruling of an international court that ordered it to release a
Greenpeace ship it seized in September with all crew, a Kremlin official
said Saturday.
“We won’t [react]. We have no plans to participate in this process,”
Sergei Ivanov, who heads the Kremlin administration, told journalists in
St. Petersburg.
The International Tribunal on the Law for the Sea in Hamburg ruled on
Friday that Russia must release the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker and all
30 people on board on bond of 3.6 million euro ($4.8 million).
The release is a provisional measure: The maritime court still has to rule on the legality of Russia seizing the vessel.
Presque tous les membres de l'équipage du navire de Greenpeace
arraisonné en septembre en Russie étaient sortis de prison sous caution
vendredi, mais la justice internationale a réclamé qu'ils puissent
quitter le pays.
Le Tribunal international du droit de
la mer, basé à Hambourg et saisi par les Pays-Bas, dont l'Arctic Sunrise
de Greenpeace bat pavillon, a ordonné de lever la saisie du navire
contre le versement d’une caution de 3,6 millions d'euros et de
permettre aux membres étrangers de l'équipage de quitter le pays.
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MOSCOW, November 22, 20:40 /ITAR-TASS/. Russia will
certainly scrutinize Friday’s resolution of the International Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea regarding the Arctic Sunrise case and will
formulate a stance on it, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“We’d like to hope the tribunal tackled the case objectively and took
account of all the aspects of the /September 18/ incident involving the
ship /from aboard which a group of Greenpeace activists tried to get
over to a Russian drilling platform - Itar-Tass/, including a failure of
the flag state to honor its international legal obligations and
encroachment by ship’s crew on the terms of the 1982 UN Convention on
the Law of the Sea in the field of navigation in the exclusive economic
zone of a foreign state,” a spokesman for the ministry said.
22 November 2013 – The United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea today ordered
that Russia release the Greenpeace ship and its crew that it seized in
September following a protest over oil drilling off its coast, once the
Netherlands posts a bond of 3.6 million euros.
The Arctic Sunrise – an icebreaker operated by the environmental
group and which flies the flag of the Netherlands – was boarded by
Russian officials on 19 September, brought to the port of Murmansk
Oblast and detained.
