EUU, Alm.del - 2014-15 (2. samling) - Bilag 69: Appel fra det ukrainske parlament vedr. overholdelse af Minsk-aftalen

Europaudvalget 2014-15 (2. samling)
EUU Alm.del Bilag 69
Offentligt

Appeal

of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine,

as well as heads the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine’s delegations to parliamentary

assemblies of international organizations, to foreign parliaments’ committees

on foreign affairs and heads of national parliaments’ delegations to parliamentary

assemblies of international organizations regarding the need

to ensure implementation of the Minsk agreements by the Russian Federation

On February 12, 2015 in Minsk, members of the Trilateral Contact Group including

representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Special Representative of the OSCE

Chairperson-in-Office signed a Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk

Agreements. Approved was also a Declaration of President of Ukraine, President of the

French Republic, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and President of the

Russian Federation in support of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the

Minsk Agreements.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stands for steadfast

realization of the Minsk agreements and their proper fulfillment, before all, as regards

implementation of full ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and releasing of hostages.

This position is supported by the Verkhovna Rada’s decision to implement the

Constitutional reform, as well as acts of legislation passed to ensure genuine

decentralization in Ukraine, and the preparatory work for holding local elections, including

in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts according to Ukraine’s legislation and

OSCE standards. We believe that holding of the elections in conformity with these

universally recognized requirements and their positive assessment by OSCE Office for

Democratic Institutions and Human Rights is a fundamental idea behind the Minsk

agreements and an indispensable part of stabilization in Donbas.

We remindthat it was the sham election, which was held in Donbas on November 2, 2014

and has not been recognized by a singlestate, that, in fact, broke the Minsk agreements of

September 5 and 19, 2014 and threatened the development of peace process. Instead,

changes introduced by the Verkhovna Rada to the Law of Ukraine ‘On the Special Self-

Government Order in Certain Areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts’ have blocked any

attempts of Russia-backed headmen to legitimize the illegal institutions established in

Donbas after November 2, 2014.

The Committee takes note of the active work of the Trilateral Contact Group and its

subgroups that have embarked onsubstantive discussion of practical aspects of

implementation of the Minsk agreements.

We proceed from the understanding that the primary task of the groups is to reach,the

soonest, an agreement on additional effective measures capable of ensuring a lasting and

comprehensive ceasefire, final withdrawal of heavy weapons, equal to and above the 100-

mm limit, subsequent withdrawal of tanks and canons below 100-mm limit and mortars

below 120-mm limit with OSCE monitoring and verification, and promote practical

implementation thereof; tosolve social and economic and humanitarian problems in the

EUU, Alm.del - 2014-15 (2. samling) - Bilag 69: Appel fra det ukrainske parlament vedr. overholdelse af Minsk-aftalen

region caused by terrorist activities of the so-called ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ and Russian military

aggression in Eastern Ukraine; to ensure unconditional release of all hostages, including

Ukrainian citizens unlawfully held in the Russian Federation, as well as unimpeded access

for humanitarian assistance to the affected areas.

Another important task of the Trilateral Contact Group and its sub-groups in to provide

maximum facilitation for the effective monitoring and verification by OSCE and its Special

Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, first of all, as regards monitors’ safety and freedom of

movement, their unimpeded access to all areas, including the parts of the Ukrainian-

Russian border that are temporarily out of Ukraine’s control.

Although the Minsk agreements have provided conditions for a peaceful settlement in

Donbas, recently there has been substantial deterioration of security in the region due to

intensified shelling and provocations by illegal armed units of the so-called ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’.

Being a Nromandi-4 party, the Russian Federation, instead of influencing the terrorist

groups it controls to stop the fighting, continues to foment the conflict in Donbas by

supplying the so-called ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ with modern military equipment, weapons and

ammunition, unimpededly recruiting and training on its territory of fightersunder the guise

of volunteers, and using its regular military forces to wage war on the Ukrainian people.

Our desire to preserve the territorial integrity of Ukraine, ensure peace for all her citizens

regardless of nationality, language or religion, and to build on this foundation a prosperous

European Statehas prompted us to appeal to foreign parliaments’ committees on foreign

affairs and heads of national parliaments’ delegations to parliamentary assemblies of

international organizations to use decisively and immediately all the instruments of

parliamentary diplomacy, their influence and free will to achieve peace in Ukraine’s East

and stop Russian aggressionbased on implementation of the Minsk agreements by the

Russian Federation and terrorist groups it controls.

Chairwoman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Foreign Affairs

Hanna HOPKO

Head of Ukraine's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Ivanna KLYMPUSH-TSYNTSADZE

Head of Ukraine's delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly

Volodymyr ARIEV

Head of Ukraine's delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Artur HERASYMOV

Head of Ukraine's delegation to the Euronest

Borys TARASIUK