A new PACE resolution calls for strengthening the sanctions regime against russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and officially recognising putin's illegitimacy as president of the russian federation. The Assembly reaffirmed that under putin, russia has become a de facto dictatorship.
This was stated by Yevheniia Kravchuk, the MP, Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, member of the Permanent Delegation to PACE.
“In this resolution, the PACE clearly stated that since coming to power, putin has been building a regime aimed at waging war against democracy and reshaping the European and world order established after the collapse of the former Soviet Union,” the MP said.
The PACE document calls for the official recognition of putin's illegitimacy as president of the russian federation.
“The document calls for strengthening the sanctions regime against russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as against the lukashenko regime in belarus; to recognise the russian Orthodox Church as an instrument of russian influence and propaganda that has nothing to do with freedom of religion and expression, and to treat patriarch kirill and the russian Orthodox hierarchy as a continuation of the neo-imperial ideology of the “russian world”; to create an international mechanism of compensation for victims of russian aggression against Ukraine, to which frozen russian assets should be immediately transferred, and to create a special tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression against Ukraine; to ensure that russia is held accountable for its actions.
According to her, the Assembly also stressed that, according to international humanitarian law, russian oil refineries should be considered legitimate targets of military attacks.
“It is very important that the Assembly called on the United States, as an observer state to the Council of Europe, to ensure that the Senate Foreign Assistance Bill, which includes military assistance to Ukraine, is brought to a vote without further delay or otherwise authorise the provision of necessary military and other assistance to Ukraine as soon as possible. We also managed to pass amendments concerning the colonised peoples of russia,” informed Yevheniia Kravchuk.