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Boston Globe
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Russia is responsible for downing MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, global aviation agency's council finds
The International Court of Justice wasn't an option, because Russia doesn't recognize The Hague, Netherlands-based court's jurisdiction. Advertisement Council finds that Russia violated the Chicago Convention The council found that Russia had violated the Convention on International Civil Aviation, known as the Chicago Convention, which requires that states 'refrain from resorting to the use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight.' It's the first time that the council, which represents 193 member states, has decided a dispute between governments. Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said that the council would consider the question of reparations within weeks. 'In that context, the Netherlands and Australia are requesting that the ICAO Council order the Russian Federation to enter into negotiations with the Netherlands and Australia, and that the Council facilitate this process,' Veldkamp said in a statement. 'The latter is important in order to ensure that the negotiations are conducted in good faith and according to specific timelines, and that they will yield actual results,' he added. Advertisement Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong urged the council to move swiftly to 'determine remedies.' 'We call on Russia to finally face up to its responsibility for its horrific act of violence and make reparations for its egregious conduct, as required under international law,' Wong said in a statement. Russian Embassy doesn't respond The Russian Embassy in Australia didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. Australian National University international law expert Don Rothwell said that the council had yet to publish the reasons for its decisions. 'One of the consequences for this process will be that the council will probably make some recommendations that Russia pay what are called reparations, which is an international term for damages, as a result of its violation of international law,' Rothwell said. 'So we have to wait and see exactly what the council finds on that particular point,' Rothwell added.
South China Morning Post
26-04-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
US tariff war ‘will not kill Hong Kong', Trade Development Council says
The US trade war 'will not kill Hong Kong' given the city's increasingly diversified exports in recent years, with only 3 per cent of goods expected to be affected, the Trade Development Council has said. Advertisement Council director of research Irina Fan Yuen-yee said on Saturday that only about half of Hong Kong's exports to the US were subject to tariffs, accounting for only about 3 per cent of the city's total exports. 'The impact of the trade war on Hong Kong, in general, is a bit painful but will not kill us,' she said at a briefing during a Beijing-organised media tour to promote the Greater Bay Area that groups leading cities in southern China. The administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed cumulative tariffs of 145 per cent on all Chinese goods over several escalatory rounds, with the White House also revealing the figure to be as high as 245 per cent for some goods. But Trump announced on April 11 an exemption from the 'reciprocal tariffs' on several categories of electronic products from China that would last a month. 01:38 'Fake news': Chinese officials dismiss claims of US trade war consultations 'Fake news': Chinese officials dismiss claims of US trade war consultations Fan said Hong Kong had reduced its dependence on the US, with exports to the country dropping by about 9 to 10 per cent from 2017 to 2024, during which overall exports increased by 17 per cent.
