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Bürgenstock summit on peace in Ukraine: paving the way

Motion for a resolution | Doc. 16015 | 25 June 2024

Signatories:
Mr Damien COTTIER, Switzerland, ALDE ; Mr Knut ABRAHAM, Germany, EPP/CD ; Ms Nerea AHEDO, Spain, ALDE ; Mr Mehmet AKALIN, Türkiye, ALDE ; Ms Maryna BARDINA, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Régis BERGONZI, Monaco, ALDE ; Ms Larysa BILOZIR, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr François BONNEAU, France, ALDE ; Mr Christophe BRICO, Monaco, EPP/CD ; Ms Bernadeta COMA, Andorra, ALDE ; Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, Romania, SOC ; Ms Sabina ĆUDIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE ; Ms Béatrice FRESKO-ROLFO, Monaco, ALDE ; Mr Peter FRICK, Liechtenstein, ALDE ; Mr Hannes GERMANN, Switzerland, ALDE ; Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Ms Valentina GRIPPO, Italy, ALDE ; Mr Thomas HASLER, Liechtenstein, ALDE ; Mr Petri HONKONEN, Finland, ALDE ; Mr Aleksei JEVGRAFOV, Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Bjarni JÓNSSON, Iceland, ALDE ; Mr Serhii KALCHENKO, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Mr Claude KERN, France, ALDE ; Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Michael Georg LINK, Germany, ALDE ; Mr Arminas LYDEKA, Lithuania, ALDE ; Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Olena MOSHENETS, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Alexander RYLE, Denmark, ALDE ; Mr Francesco SORBARA, Canada ; Mr Georgios STAMATIS, Greece, EPP/CD ; Ms Ingvild Wetrhus THORSVIK, Norway, ALDE ; Ms Lesia VASYLENKO, Ukraine, ALDE ; Ms Rian VOGELS, Netherlands, ALDE ; Mr Markus WIECHEL, Sweden, EC/DA ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

The ongoing war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine continues to cause large-scale human suffering and destruction, and to create risks and crises with global repercussions.

The Parliamentary Assembly has repeatedly called for the cessation of hostilities, the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops, the release of prisoners of war and deported children and the respect for international law, particularly the United Nations Charter, international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

On 15-16 June 2024, more than 100 high-level delegations met in Bürgenstock at the invitation of the Swiss Government.

A joint communiqué was supported by more than 80 delegations (85 by 21 June 2024), among which the Council of Europe.

The signatories made important commitments and stated central principles. They underlined specifically three crucial aspects:

  • nuclear security and safety;
  • global food security and free, full and safe commercial navigation;
  • the release of prisoners of war and the return of deported and unlawfully displaced Ukrainian children and civilians.

The Assembly must support this process. In particular it could:

  • welcome the Summit and its Communiqué and the follow-up steps that will emerge;
  • invite all States or international organisations who have not yet signed the communiqué to do so;
  • encourage the participants, as well as other States who wish to join, to contribute actively to a concrete follow-up to the discussions, specifically in the three above-mentioned areas;
  • invite the Committee of Ministers and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to support actively all efforts in this context and to make the Organisation’s expertise available to the parties;
  • examine all other possibilities to concretely and actively support this process.