Joint statement on the need for further sanctions against Russia for its war of aggression against Ukraine

Joint statement on the need for further sanctions against Russia
for its war of aggression against Ukraine
As Chairs of Foreign Affairs Committees of our respective Parliaments, in response to the
continued — unprovoked and unjust — war of aggression waged against Ukraine by the
Russian Federation, we:
note the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, a sovereign country, is a gross
violation of international law, including the UN Charter;
emphasise that since Russia's unprovoked military attack on Ukraine on February 24,
2022, twelve million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes and over five million
have been forced to flee their country;
refer to several reports by human rights groups and international monitoring missions
about atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces against Ukrainian civilians,
including torture, rape, murder and mass detention of civilians in so-called filtration
centres, as well as mass deportations;
underline the immoral and illegal nature of the tactics chosen by Russia, the widespread
use of especially cruel, imprecise weapons that maim and cause special suffering - Russia,
by using this type of ammunition, violates international norms. Russian forces in Ukraine
are using internationally banned cluster munitions to sow fear and indiscriminately kill
civilians;
stress that the deployment of Russian military personnel and weaponry at the
Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant - Europe’s largest nuclear power plant — is unacceptable
and disregards the safety, security, and safeguards principles outlined in the Seven Pillars
of Nuclear Safety and Security;
note that the presence of Russian military forces at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant
prevents the operator and the Ukrainian authorities from fulfilling their nuclear and
radiation safety obligations per international conventions,
urge the Russian Federation to immediately withdraw its military forces and all other
unauthorised personnel from the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, its immediate
surroundings, and all of Ukraine;
reiterate our strongest condemnation of the ongoing unprovoked and unjustifiable war of
aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Russian Federation must
immediately withdraw its troops from within Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders
and respect Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty.
call on the Euro-Atlantic community and its partners to urgently strengthen and
implement comprehensive sanctions against the Russian Federation to stop the ability of
the Russian army to continue its military aggression in Ukraine, to increase military,
financial, humanitarian and diplomatic support to Ukraine, to unanimously support
initiatives that condemn Russia's military actions in Ukraine and calls bring the
perpetrators to justice, isolate Russia from international and regional organisations, as
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well as adopt equivalent decisions and establish equivalent sanctions against Belarus as a
supporter of Russian military aggression;
call on Member States of the European Union and other western allies to immediately
suspend tourism and limit the issuance of entry visas for tourism of citizens of the Russian
Federation
commemorates all the victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine – thousands of civilians
and defenders of Ukraine;
express solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.
Marko Mikhelson,
Chai of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Riigikogu
Estonia
Rihards Kols,
Chai of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Saeima
Latvia
Laima Liucija Andrikienė,
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the Seimas
Lithuania
Marek Zenisek,
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the Chamber of Deputies
Czech Republic
Marek Kuchcinski
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the Sejm
Poland
Bogdan Klich
Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs
Poland
Pavel Fischer
Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Security
Czech Republic
Jussi Halla-aho
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Commmitte of
Eduskunta
Finland
Martin Lidegaard
Chair of the Foreign Policy Committee of the
Folketinget
Denmark