PACE allows Ukraine to impose sanctions against illegal visitors to Crimea and Donbas

PACE allows Ukraine to impose sanctions against illegal visitors to Crimea and Donbas

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has passed a resolution under which Ukraine can impose sanctions against politicians, who visit occupied territories of Donbas and Crimea without the concurrence of government. 

Ukrainian president’s envoy for peaceful regulation of situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, MP Iryna Heraschenko wrote on her Facebook page.

“We have managed to introduce a very important amendment to the PACE resolution on sanctions against parliamentarians, which enables Ukraine to impose sanctions against politicians visiting occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas without the concurrence of Kyiv,” she wrote.

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