The draft resolution was initiated by member of Permanent delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, people's deputy Ostap Semerak and adopted by the majority of votes (less introduction of any remarks and objections).
The Resolution strongly condemns the abduction of Ukrainian citizens from the territory of Ukraine, including Member of Parliament Nadiya Savchenko, filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and others, their illegal transfer across the Ukrainian-Russian state border and further detention in the Russian Federation.
Besides, it considers that these actions by the Russian Federation, as well as criminal prosecutions of those Ukrainian citizens, are illegal and illegitimate as they constitute a flagrant violation of norms of international law in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms and OSCE principles and commitments, as well as running counter to the commitments undertaken by the Russian Federation under the Minsk Agreements in September 2014 and February 2015.
The Resolution calls on the Russian Federation to strictly abide by the norms and principles of international law, the OSCE principles and commitments, the Minsk Agreements and to immediately release Nadiya Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian citizens that are illegally detained in Russia, as well as to ensure their safe return to Ukraine.