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Support for political negotiations to enforce exchange and release of prisoners of war

Amendment No. 17 | Doc. 16197 | 23 June 2025

Signatories:
Ms Olena KHOMENKO, Ukraine, ECPA ; Ms Larysa BILOZIR, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ukraine, ECPA ; Mr Serhii KALCHENKO, Ukraine, ECPA ; Mr Arminas LYDEKA, Lithuania, ALDE ; Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Rostyslav TISTYK, Ukraine, ECPA ; Ms Lesia VASYLENKO, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Markus WIECHEL, Sweden, ECPA ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD
Origin
2025 - Third part-session
In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 6 with the following paragraph:

"Ukrainian prisoners of war are at risk of inhuman and degrading treatment, torture and even execution from the moment they are captured on the battlefield, and subsequently during their transportation, transit and imprisonment in detention facilities, both in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. They are also at risk of being convicted on trumped-up charges or simply for having taken part in hostilities and for exercising Ukraine’s right to self-defence under the UN Charter, in proceedings that violate fair trial guarantees."

Explanatory note

Corrected wording, added on Ukraine’s right to self-defence and fair trial guarantees