People's choice: Belarus will not support the session of the PA OSCE criticism of the Russian Federation

Nina Gurina. The Belarusian delegation at the session of the parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the OSCE in July in Helsinki will not support the criticism of Russia over the Crimea, said on the last working day of the week correspondents Deputy head of the Chamber of authorized National Assembly (lower house of Parliament) Viktor Guminsky.

Crimea and Sevastopol became the Russian regions after the 16 March 2014 referendum in which the overwhelming majority of voters voted for reunification with Russia. In the capital of Russia notice that the referendum in Crimea complies with international law and the UN Charter. Anyway, Ukraine still considers Crimea its territory and Western countries have imposed because of this, a number of sanctions against Russia.

"We'll follow in the footsteps of our common position on the issue. We are on the subject did not vote in the UN, did not vote at the conference " Eastern partnership ". We are told that We are not able at this point to vote, " Huminski said, speaking about the possibility of inclusion in the draft decision of the OSCE PA condemned the position of Russia in the Crimea.

the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has stated many times that the Crimea on the fact is not Ukrainian territory. However, the official Minsk had not made statements about its recognition of Crimea for Russia. Belarus also did not want to sign the final Declaration of the Riga summit of "Eastern partnership" with the caption about the "annexation" of Crimea.

Huminski also said that at the session the Belarusian delegation plans to encourage the process of this process, the participating countries had not distanced between them. The people's Deputy noticed that the Session should help to make the steps to get closer to work towards the implementation of the Minsk agreements (with the permission of a conflict situation in the South-East of Ukraine) ".

Session of OSCE PA will be held from 5 to 9 July in Helsinki.


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