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The 2022 Holberg Debate on Ukraine, Russia, China and the West.

Holberg Prize Talks

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The Principles of International Law

Vladimir Putin is unlikely to back down from seeking to dismember, control and subdue Ukraine. He has described it several times as a life and death struggle in all probability. But let's look at the principles if we are to search for a new stability. There are two principles that I can see that are absolutely fundamental for the security of our continent. The first is obviously that aggression should never be tolerated. Every other war crime derives from the crime of aggression. And the second principle: borders should be respected and should never be altered by force. These are not only principles of international law, but they are primarily our younger principles derived from the very bitter history of Europe.

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