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Rada proposed to appeal to OSCE PA on inadmissibility of Russian, Belarusian reps participation in Assembly's statutory bodies
KYIV. Jan 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) – MPs from different factions suggest the Verkhovna Rada appeal to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) and the parliaments of its member states on the inadmissibility of the participation of parliamentarians of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the work of the statutory bodies of the Assembly.
Relevant bill No. 8396 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on Monday, according to the website of the parliament.
MPs propose to call on the OSCE PA to approve the rules of procedure of the Assembly, which provide for the suspension of the powers of representatives of the parliaments of the participating states who violate the principles of the OSCE and commit an act of armed aggression, and to decide on the suspension of powers in relation to members of the parliamentary delegations of Russia and Belarus.
MPs also suggest the Verkhovna Rada ask the parliaments of the OSCE member states to call on their governments to apply visa restrictions to members of the parliaments of Russia and Belarus who are under sanctions from the European Union and other OSCE participating states. MPs also propose to the parliaments of the OSCE participating states to approve legislative norms on the confiscation of frozen financial and other assets of Russia and its citizens for their further transfer to Ukraine, as compensation for the harm caused by aggression and join the initiative to establish a Special International Tribunal, recognize Russia as a terrorist state and strengthen sanctions pressure on it.
Among the authors of the draft resolution are Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, his first deputy Oleksandr Korniyenko and deputy chairperson Olena Kondratiuk, MPs Yevhenia Kravchuk (Servant of the People faction), Yaroslav Yurchyshyn (Holos), Artur Herasymiv (European Solidarity), Ivan Krulko (Batkivschyna).
