UKRAINE CALLS ON INTL COMMUNITY TO PREVENT RUSSIA FROM USING BLACKMAIL, THREATS

Wed 26 January 2022:

Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, urged the international community on Tuesday to stop Russia from blackmailing the country and threatening a full-scale invasion.

Lawmakers convened with this agenda amid continued tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

During the parliament session, a resolution was passed on appealing to the United Nations, the European Parliament and the governments and parliaments of foreign states and international organizations to prevent Russia from continuing its military blackmail against Ukraine, which is unjust and it is carrying out in order to prevent the implementation of Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

The resolution was passed with the votes of 282 out of 319 deputies.

Ukrainian lawmakers proposed recognizing that Russia’s demands to international partners to prevent the implementation of European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations of Ukraine are a violation of, inter alia, the Constitution and legislation of Ukraine, basic principles and norms of international law, the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act of August 1, 1975, the Charter of Paris for a New Europe of November 21, 1990, the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of December 5, 1994, UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 “Territorial Integrity of Ukraine” (March 27, 2014), and the International Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism (December 9, 1999).

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk has been instructed to immediately send the text of the address to the United Nations, the European Parliament, governments and parliaments of foreign states and parliamentary assemblies of international organizations.

“The measures proposed by the draft resolution will help consolidate international legal efforts to prevent the expansion of aggressive actions by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the whole of Central and Eastern Europe,” Stefanchuk said, delivering a report from the parliament’s rostrum.

Parliament also called for the use of all possible diplomatic means to facilitate the de-escalation of the situation and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine’s borders.

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