Verkhovna Rada delegation takes part in a meeting of Twelve Plus Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which approved declaration on support to Ukraine
30 March 2015, 16:10
At a meeting of the Twelve Plus Group that took place in Hanoi (the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) on March 30, the Declaration on support to Ukraine initiated by the Ukrainian delegation was adopted in the frames of the 132nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Verkhovna Rada deputy and a member of the Ukrainian delegation Liudmyla Denysova said that on March 27, the Ukrainian delegation submitted for Twelve Plus Group’s consideration and initiated respective discussion of a draft Declaration on Ukraine. It has been discussed in Verkhovna Rada committees over three days and was passed today.
“Members of the Twelve Plus Group expressed their support to the Ukrainian people, who, as it is put in the Declaration, are suffering Russia’s aggression. Representatives the European Union parliaments and many other states confirmed that in 2014, the Russian Federation launched a hybrid war against Ukraine,” Liudmyla Denysova said.
She also said that members of the Twelve Plus Group acknowledge that Russia’s support to illegal armed groupings in Donbas, their financing and armament destabilize the situation in Ukraine, creates threats to territorial integrity of the state, and puts in jeopardy the situation in whole Europe.
“The Twelve Plus Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union has called on the world community to condemn Russia’s illegal actions and expand the political pressure on the Russian Federation in order to make it adhere to its obligations in compliance with international treaties, and remove rude violation of the world order and security system,” Liudmyla Denysova said.
Reference information: members of the Twelve Plus Group are Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
