Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has urged the United Nations, European Parliament, parliamentary assemblies of the Council of Europe, OSCE, NATO, PABSEC, governments and parliaments of the states of the world to continue policy of non-recognition of the annexation of Crimea and to increase sanctions pressure on the aggressor state in face of Russian Federation.
A total of 300 MPs voted in favor of corresponding decree No.3449 on appeal of Verkhovna Rada to these organizations.
The Verkhovna Rada asked international parliamentary organizations to apply additional measures aimed at continuing the policy of not recognition of the attempted annexation of Crimea and introduction of international monitoring of their full compliance, increasing pressure on the aggressor state of the Russian Federation, using all possible sanction, political, diplomatic and economic mechanisms to stop violations by Russia of the principles of international law and the implementation of the requirements of the international community, in particular the de-occupation of Crimea, the restoration of state sovereignty of Ukraine.
According to appeal, Russian Federation continues to carry out the militarization of Crimea and Sevastopol, the ethnocide policy of Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians in Crimea, including discriminatory persecution of Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and representatives of other national minorities and indigenous peoples, as well as illegally detaining Ukrainian citizens in prisons.
The parliament asked its colleagues in international organizations to demand from Russia, as an occupying state, compliance with international humanitarian law and an end to human rights violations in Crimea, in particular the rights of Crimean Tatars.
The MPs also suggested that the UN and other organizations raised the issue of restoring Ukraine’s state sovereignty over Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and the waters of the Black and Azov Seas adjacent to the peninsula during all communications at the highest and highest levels with the aggressor state of the Russian Federation.
