Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs' statement on decision of group of French deputies to pay visit to occupied territory of Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Informatiion Department
23 July 2015, 14:39
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign
Affairs has sent the statement to President of the French National Assembly
Claude Bartolone; Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French
National Assembly; Chairman of the France-Ukraine parliamentary friendship
group Remi Pauvros on the decision of a group of deputies of the National
Assembly of the French Republic to pay a visit to temporarily occupied
territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
The
statement condemns such a decision despite the explanations it goes with and
states that the decision showed disrespect to sovereignty, territorial
integrity of Ukraine, to its people and the international law.