26 March 2018, 19:00
Borys Tarasiuk, the head of the UA Permanent Parliamentary Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, spoke at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security.
The UA Delegation, consisting of its head Borys Tarasiuk, Alona Shkrum, Oleksii Poroshenko, Leonid Yemets, Olena Sotnik participated in the meetings of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security and the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade during the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which is taking place from March 24 in Geneva (Switzerland).
In his speech at the meeting of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security, dedicated to drafting the resolution on “Sustaining peace as vehicle for achieving sustainable development”, Borys Tarasiuk expressed the position of the UA Delegation on the draft Committee resolution. “The draft resolution reflects many important and correct ideas and approaches that we do share. However, unfortunately, despite correct wordings in resolutions, the reality and their implementation are hardly airtight,” he said. The head of the UA Delegation then criticized the recent IPU Assembly in Russia, which committed aggression and seized part of the territory of another member of the IPU - Ukraine.
He stressed that the aggression of a country that encroaches on the territorial integrity of other independent countries, kills innocent citizens, uses terrorist methods to violate the sovereignty of other states, interferes in the process of holding democratic elections in other countries, using cyber attacks around the world, should be stopped. B.Tarasiuk recalled the repression of the Russian Federation against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in the illegally occupied Crimea.
The Ukrainian delegation also participated in the work of the Governing Council and the 138th IPU Assembly, which launched a general debate on strengthening the global regime for the protection of migrants and refugees.
During the working day, the Delegation held bilateral meetings and consultations with the Australian and German delegations. The deputies discussed the state of bilateral relations.
In the afternoon, the meeting of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security went on considering amendments to the resolution. A total of 132 amendments were submitted and voted. Borys Tarasiuk expressed his position on every amendment that was unacceptable for Ukraine.