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Reintegration Ministry condemns illegal elections to Russia's State Duma in Donbas, Crimea
KYIV. Sept 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ministry for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine condemns the beginning of illegal elections to the Russian State Duma in the temporarily occupied territories of the Crimean Peninsula, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
"The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation includes 450 deputies elected by a mixed electoral system. Thus, according to the results of illegal elections in the temporarily occupied territories, some 225 deputies will be elected in the federal district and four deputies in single-mandate districts, that is, some 229 deputies – the majority of the constitutional composition of the Russian State Duma. The majority of the deputies will be elected illegally, making the election results legally null and void, and the State Duma incompetent," the ministry’s press service said in a statement.
The ministry said the export of Ukrainian citizens who live in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and forcibly acquired Russian citizenship to the territory of Russia through non-working checkpoints is a violation of Ukrainian law and an act of coercion by the occupying state.
The Reintegration Ministry considers the campaigning activities of Russian deputies in the temporarily occupied territories and the continuing illegal certification as a policy aimed at undermining the peaceful settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict as another demonstrative example of Russia’s withdrawal from its obligations under the Minsk Agreements.
"The holding of elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine is a gross violation of the generally recognized principles and norms of international law, primarily with regard to respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of the borders of Ukraine, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki final act), the Charter of the Council of Europe, a memorandum on security guarantees due to Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Budapest Memorandum) and other bilateral and multilateral international treaties to which Russia and Ukraine are parties and participants," the ministry said.
