Members of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Permanent delegation to OSCE PA took part in establishing of a PA’s group for support of the Silk Road project.
On July 8, 2017 within the 26th Minsk Annual Session of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly there was the Azerbaijan delegation to initiate creation of a PA’s group for support of the Silk Road.
The group is supposed to be a groundwork for promotion of mutually beneficial economic and trade relations, creation of new transport corridors, simplification of trade and traffic procedures, free and safe passage of people, commodities, services and investments.
The creation document of the Silk Road Support Group was signed by delegations of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Croatia, Montenegro, and Switzerland which became the group founders.
A.Herasimov and T.Ostrikova were those to sign the group creation document on behalf of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Permanent delegation to OSCE PA.
The Group is scheduled to assemble all along a year during the OSCE PA’s sessions. In case of urgency the Group is meant to be entitled to gather in the intersession period. The Group is open for any OSCE PA newcomers who respect the OSCE regulations, law of nations with a special regard to territorial integrity and inviolability of borders -- and are beneficiaries of the Silk Road project.
The head of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Permanent delegation to the OSCE PA Artur Herasimov had a meeting with the OSCE PA President Christine Muttonen (Austria).
On July 8, 2017 within the 26th Minsk Annual Session of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Minsk (Belarus) the head of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Permanent delegation to the OSCE PA Artur Herasimov met with the OSCE PA President Christine Muttonen. The President voiced her deep concern about no progress in the SRDLO problem settlement, the bold defiance to the Minsk agreements and total inability to arrange unhindered activities of the OSCE SMM throughout the occupied territories in Donbas.
There were some vital steps to fulfill discussed during the meeting concerning withdrawal of heavy weapons, ceasefire, ensuring the human rights to be adhered to over the territories occupied by the Russian Federation and the illegal armed groups.
The parties also touched upon a range of administrative issues related to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly.