The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine calls on the OSCE to assess the voting in the occupied Crimea during Russia’s presidential elections in the final report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
Relevant draft resolution (No. 8365) with an appeal to the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the parliaments of the OSCE participating states to monitor the presidential elections in Russia was supported by 228 parliamentarians at the plenary session of the parliament on May 17, an Interfax-Ukraine agency correspondent reported.
The resolution was adopted with technical and legal corrections of the profile committee.
The authors of this appeal were Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy, his first deputy Iryna Gerashchenko, and a group of other MPs.
The appeal is conditioned by the fact that the international mission of the OSCE/ODIHR declared its intention to publish the final report on monitoring the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, which took place on March 18, 2018.
By this resolution, the Verkhovna Rada calls for an assessment of the facts of the illegal organization of the electoral process and voting in the territories of the temporarily occupied Crimea and the city of Sevastopol in the final report of the international election observation mission and an assessment of their impact on the results of voting in general across Russia.
The Ukrainian parliament also calls on the current chairmanship in the OSCE and the OSCE/ODIHR to ensure that the residual report is consistent with the principles of objectivity, independence, impartiality of international election observation, thus preventing the discrediting of relevant international standards.
In addition, the OSCE ODIHR is called upon to develop standards for assessing and responding to challenges and threats to international standards in the field of democratic elections.
According to the appeal, the preliminary findings of the international election observation mission of the Russian president do not reflect the facts of the elections in the occupied part of Ukraine, the use of fraudulent voter lists, which included one million citizens of Ukraine, and due to this, a significant distortion of the results of the vote as a whole across Russia.
