Russia is cynically violating virtually all key documents of international law, but there are still those who are hesitant to block any relations with such a state.
The European Parliament supported the resolution with a recommendation to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership . At the same time, President Volodymyr Zelensky called on democratic countries to support Ukraine not only in words but in deeds.
except for the words that Ukraine should be part of the European family. In the coming weeks and days, the European Union may take a historic step that will prove that the words about the belonging of the people of Ukraine to the European family are not just words and not empty words “, – said he spoke on Friday at a video conference at the Copenhagen Summit for Democracy.
“Why are there still skeptical politicians or hesitant about whether Ukraine should be allowed to join the European Union? Why? Why have the Ukrainian people been told for so long that they should still remain in this gray area between the European Union and Russia? Why? If Russia is cynically violating literally all the key documents of international law, why are there still those who are hesitant to block any relations with such a state? ” – Zelensky asked.
Ukraine needs effective, legally binding security guarantees and an updated security architecture for the European continent.
“When it becomes clear that war can start at any moment, the aggressor must feel the terror of the democratic world, the force of international law, as soon as it turns out that this aggressor is just trying to violate existing basic norms.” he added.
Zelensky stressed that all war criminals should be brought to justice.
“Justice must have its say, and the word of justice must be backed up by action for every death in Ukraine by Russian soldiers, for every torture and rape,” he said.
Russia has violated more than 400 international treaties and agreements with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Among them he named the UN Charter, the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, the UN Convention on the Prevention of Punishment for the Crime of Genocide, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. . racial discrimination, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
“Russia has also violated the 1975 Final Act (Helsinki Act), the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and the Charter of the Council of Europe,” Zelensky added. weight: 400; “>” Democracy must be effective in all respects. Words must work. They must act. And when that happens, there will be no question of who will win, “the president said.
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Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishina said that there are three EU countries that do not support granting Ukraine candidate status. Denmark and the Netherlands .
Earlier, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that Ukraine will not accept any surrogate versions or alternatives to the status of a candidate for EU membership .
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