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Verkhovna Rada fails to put on agenda address to international institutions on Olenivka terror act – MP Aryev
KYIV. Aug 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Verkhovna Rada has failed to include on agenda a resolution on the parliament’s appeal to international institutions with a call to condemn the fact of the mass execution of Ukrainian servicemen by the aggressor state in Olenivka on July 29.
Ukrainian MP Volodymyr Aryev, who is the author of the legislative initiative and a member of the European Solidarity faction, said that only 189 MPs supported this proposal at the plenary session on Tuesday (while the minimum required number of votes is 226).
"Iryna Heraschenko [co-chairperson of the European Solidarity faction] at the end of the plenary session pushed through so that [Verkhovna Rada] Chairman [Ruslan] Stefanchuk suggested that the MP to decide on putting my bill 7627 on the agenda – an appeal to the world about the Rushist terrorist attack in Olenivka against the Azov fighters and other defenders of Mariupol. There were 189 [votes] in favor [of the bill]. Of them only 120 were from the "servants" [members of the Servant of the People faction]. Half of the monomajority. I thanked them. I told everything in the face to the rest," he said on Facebook.
As reported, a group of members of the European Solidarity faction on August 2 registered in the parliament bill No. 7627 which proposes the Verkhovna Rada to call on the UN, the European Union, the European Council, the OSCE, the parliaments and the governments of NATO Member States, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Doctors Without Border international humanitarian organization to condemn the terror act in Olenivka.
