OSCE PA delegation visits Mariupol. Photos

OSCE PA delegation visits Mariupol. Photos

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Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Kyriakos Hadjiyianni and former chair Margareta Kiener Nellen visited Mariupol on July 22.

This is stated in the press release posted on the website of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

“No more dead, no more wounded! I urge to strictly respect International Humanitarian Law and to demilitarize all villages,” Kiener Nellen stated after observing the crossing of the line of contact at the Pyschevyk entry-exit checkpoint.

Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Kyriakos Hadjiyianni thanked the Trilateral Contact Group for facilitating the recommitment by all sides to an unlimited ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. According to him, civil and military authorities in place must now be held accountable for enforcing this ceasefire.

The parliamentarians hosted a roundtable with human rights stakeholders active in Donetsk region to discuss the most pressing humanitarian priorities of the conflict affected population. Participants included the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, the UNHCR, the International Committee of the Red Cross and representatives of several NGOs and internally displaced persons.

The OSCE PA delegation representatives reminded that the Luxembourg Declaration had been adopted by the PA two weeks ago. In the resolution, the OSCE PA called for “the cessation of military hostilities in eastern Ukraine, the full withdrawal of heavy-calibre weaponry by both sides, an immediate end to the use of landmines and greater investment in demining efforts, the de-occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the withdrawal of Russian military forces from Ukrainian territory, and a comprehensive settlement of the conflict based on full implementation of the Minsk Agreements, in particular the obligations under the Minsk Agreements which have not been fulfilled by the Russian Federation.”

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