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17 January 2023, 15:04
Draft Resolution No. 8338 concerns crimes of the Russian Federation against environment. The Verkhovna Rada intends to appeal to the UN, the European Parliament, the PACE, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE PA, the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Associations of Southeast Asian States, as well as the national parliaments of the countries of the world with a call to condemn the crimes against environment committed by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The resolution also calls for help to overcome the consequences of these crimes, to restore the ecosystem of Ukraine during the war and in the post-war period, to ensure compensation for environmental damage and loss of ecosystem services, as well as to create a global platform for assessing the damage caused to climate and environment as a result of the war.
Draft Resolution No. 8335 is a statement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine about the encroachment of the Russian Federation on the statehood of Ukraine with the aim of its destruction. ‘Continuing an aggressive war against Ukraine, the Russian Federation, in violation of international law, is using force and committing criminal acts unprecedented in recent history with the aim of violently destroying Ukrainian nation and the UN member state,’ the note to the draft resolution states. The adoption of the Resolution will make it possible to convey to the UN, the European Parliament, the PACE, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the NATO PA, the governments and parliaments of foreign countries the position of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine regarding the need to recognise the actions of the Russian Federation as genocide of the Ukrainian people, as well as crimes against humanity, war crimes on the territory of Ukraine and international crimes. These actions are aimed at the forcible deprivation of the sovereignty and statehood of Ukraine.
Draft resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada to the international community regarding the crimes of the Russian Federation are #AtTheCommitteeConsideration
The Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into the EU is working on three draft Resolutions, being prepared by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to strengthen the participation of the international community in countering Russia's barbaric war against Ukraine. Draft Resolution No. 8337 is an appeal of the Verkhovna Rada to the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the World Trade Organization, governments and parliaments of foreign countries. In this appeal, the Parliament of Ukraine intends to call for additional sanctions on the import of Russian and Belarusian wood and wood products, Russian fish and seafood, a ban on the export of equipment and its components, as well as the ban for the operation of international environmental certification systems on the territory of the Russian Federation. The authors of the draft resolution note that in 2022, the EU, Japan, Switzerland and other countries imposed restrictions on the import of Russian and Belarusian wood and wood products. However, the introduced sanctions are incomplete and have loopholes, in particular, a possibility to bypass them through third countries. The same situation is with Russian fish and seafood. The volume of exports of such products is about 4 billion US dollars annually. However, sanctions imposed by various countries on fish and seafood imports have the same drawbacks as sanctions on wood products. Therefore, Ukrainian MPs intend to call for the expansion of these sanctions.Draft Resolution No. 8338 concerns crimes of the Russian Federation against environment. The Verkhovna Rada intends to appeal to the UN, the European Parliament, the PACE, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE PA, the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Associations of Southeast Asian States, as well as the national parliaments of the countries of the world with a call to condemn the crimes against environment committed by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The resolution also calls for help to overcome the consequences of these crimes, to restore the ecosystem of Ukraine during the war and in the post-war period, to ensure compensation for environmental damage and loss of ecosystem services, as well as to create a global platform for assessing the damage caused to climate and environment as a result of the war.
Draft Resolution No. 8335 is a statement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine about the encroachment of the Russian Federation on the statehood of Ukraine with the aim of its destruction. ‘Continuing an aggressive war against Ukraine, the Russian Federation, in violation of international law, is using force and committing criminal acts unprecedented in recent history with the aim of violently destroying Ukrainian nation and the UN member state,’ the note to the draft resolution states. The adoption of the Resolution will make it possible to convey to the UN, the European Parliament, the PACE, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the NATO PA, the governments and parliaments of foreign countries the position of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine regarding the need to recognise the actions of the Russian Federation as genocide of the Ukrainian people, as well as crimes against humanity, war crimes on the territory of Ukraine and international crimes. These actions are aimed at the forcible deprivation of the sovereignty and statehood of Ukraine.