Constitutional courts of four countries have initiated a process of condemning the Constitutional Court of Russia for its failure to stop the annexation of Crimea.

Constitutional courts of Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia and Moldova initiated a process of condemning the Constitutional Court of Russia for not trying to stop the annexation of Crimea in 2014, said the heads of four constitutional courts during a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Georgian George Papuashvili, Lithuanian Dainius Zalimas, Latvian Aldis Lavi?š and Moldavian Alexandru T?nase arrived to Kyiv for an International Theoretical and Practical Conference on Introduction of Constitutional Complaint in Ukraine.

During a meeting with Poroshenko, they said that constitutional courts of their countries are not willing to watch the events in Ukraine idly.

“This year we have initiate the so-called Batumi process to condemn the actions of the Constitutional Court of Russian Federation that was able to stop the annexation of Crimea, but did not do that. We decided not to stay silent,” said Zalimas.

“Act of aggression and gross violation of international laws should not stay unnoticed, at least, among the judicial community,” added T?nase, expressing hope that courts and lawyers of other countries will support this position.