In the light of these considerations, the Assembly calls on
Council of Europe member States to:
11.1 step up assistance for Ukraine, both directly and by contributing
to the humanitarian appeals for funding that have been launched
by multilateral organisations;
11.2 consider increasing their assistance to Ukraine in its
efforts to strengthen the protection of its territory, including
its airspace, in order to reduce the severe human cost, attacks
on the civilian population and civilian targets, notably hospitals,
maternity wards, medical facilities and civilian infrastructure,
and the tragic humanitarian consequences of the Russian Federation’s
ongoing war of aggression;
11.3 stop supplying weapons, components for Russian military
industry and dual-use goods and sanction all third States who try
to circumvent the embargo;
11.4 step up solidarity with the Council of Europe member States
which have received large numbers of people fleeing Ukraine due
to the Russian Federation’s continued aggression;
11.5 establish schemes to facilitate access to their territories
and grant protection status to people fleeing Ukraine due to the
Russian Federation’s continued aggression, including by implementing,
where applicable, the European Union’s temporary protection directive;
11.6 avoid discrimination on any grounds, in particular ethnicity
and national origin, against people fleeing Ukraine due to the Russian
Federation’s continued aggression, while taking into account the needs
of vulnerable groups, including children, victims of gender-based
violence or trauma, persons with disabilities and the elderly;
11.7 guarantee that displaced persons and victims of war crimes
have access to adequate counselling and healthcare, including abortion
care for victims of rape;
11.8 raise awareness, among people fleeing Ukraine due to the
Russian Federation’s continued aggression, of the risks relating
to trafficking and exploitation; take firm action, notably through
civil society stakeholders, to prevent and punish trafficking and
exploitation and protect victims;
11.9 set up assistance and protection programmes to cater for
the needs of separated children and unaccompanied minors fleeing
Ukraine due to the Russian Federation’s continued aggression;
11.10 supply field hospitals and medical equipment to assist
all injured Ukrainians and encourage medical staff to volunteer
to work in Ukraine;
11.11 support and encourage activities aimed at providing support
by professional communities of Europeans to professional communities
of Ukrainians, notably judges, prosecutors, lawyers and others;
11.12 support activities aimed at promoting solidarity with
Ukrainian municipalities, such as twinning programmes between cities
and other initiatives supported by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
of the Council of Europe;
11.13 where applicable, make full use of the resources made
available through the European Union Technical Support Instrument
to set up assistance programmes for people fleeing Ukraine due to
the Russian Federation’s continued aggression, and consider asking
for the Council of Europe’s support in the creation and implementation
of such programmes;
11.14 take active measures to help Ukraine transport stored
grain and other agricultural products from Ukrainian ports blockaded
and destroyed by Russian armed forces by sea to their final destination,
in order to ensure food security for all regions of the world and
to avoid a global food price crisis;
11.15 continue to exert pressure on the Russian Federation to
cease the hostilities, withdraw its troops from the entire territory
of sovereign Ukraine and comply with international law as well as
with the investigations carried out in order to establish accountability
for violations of international human rights law, humanitarian law
and other international crimes;
11.16 continue to exert pressure on the Russian Federation until
the full withdrawal of its troops from the sovereign territory,
not only of Ukraine, but also that of Georgia, the Republic of Moldova
and Belarus, and until the holding of transparent and fair elections
in the Russian Federation and Belarus, in line with international
standards;
11.17 to the extent that their courts have such jurisdiction,
make use of their universal jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute
alleged violations of international human rights law, humanitarian
law and other international crimes committed on the territory of
Ukraine by the Russian political and military leadership in the
context of the Russian Federation’s war in Ukraine;
11.18 support the investigations and proceedings that have been
established by the International Criminal Court, the International
Court of Justice and the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine set up
by the Human Rights Council as well as the work of the Prosecutor
General of Ukraine aimed at ensuring accountability for violations
of international human rights law, humanitarian law and other international crimes;
11.19 support the gathering of evidence on the ground to be
used in investigations, in particular concerning sexual violence,
which requires swift and specific action (photographic evidence,
DNA conservation, etc.);
11.20 urgently set up an ad hoc international criminal tribunal
to investigate the crime of aggression committed by the political
and military leadership of the Russian Federation and prosecute
the perpetrators, and to provide the necessary financial support;
11.21 exercise leadership in supporting the organisation of
a 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of
Europe to reaffirm the values of democracy, human rights and the
rule of law and elaborate a new vision for the Organisation in the
context of the European multilateral architecture;
11.22 show their continued trust in the Council of Europe by
ensuring that it has the necessary budgetary and extra-budgetary
resources to support Ukraine as a matter of urgency, fully carry
out its mandate and strengthen its overall operational capacity.
