European Parliament demands that EU impose sanctions on "Crimean deputies" of State Duma - Main contents
Members of the European Parliament demand from the European Union to impose sanctions against the Russian deputies, illegally elected to the State Duma in the territory of the Russian-occupied Crimea.
A relevant letter was sent to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reports. The initiator of the move was MEP Petras Austrevicius, the chairman of the informal group of Friends of Ukraine (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Lithuania).
"We are writing to you to draw your attention to the fact that as a result of so-called elections to the Russian State Duma of 18 September, six deputies were elected to represent Crimea, a region of Ukraine, illegally occupied and annexed by Russia in 2014," the deputies wrote.
The letter was signed by 35 European politicians, with such influential officials among them as Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Rebecca Harms, Michael Gahler, Hans van Baalen, Pavel Svoboda, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, and Jaromir Stetina.