03/03/2014 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Paris, 03.03.2014 - The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, meeting in Paris today, adopted the following statement:
"The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly condemns without reservation the violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine by armed forces of the Russian Federation over the weekend of 1st and 2nd March 2014 and expresses its gravest concern that members of the upper House of the Russian Parliament unanimously authorised such action in advance.
The Committee believes that there has been a serious violation of the basic principles of the Council of Europe mentioned in Article 3 of, and the preamble to, the Statute.
The Committee therefore calls on the Assembly, as soon as possible, to send a fact-finding mission to Crimea."