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SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

RESOLUTION

ON THE AGGRESSION OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS AGAINST UKRAINE

24 February 2022 No XIV-930

Vilnius

The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania,

relying

on the obligations of all States under the Charter of the United Nations (hereinafter: the

‘Charter’) to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial

integrity or political independence of any State, and to settle their international disputes by peaceful

means,

recalling

the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, signed in

Helsinki on 1 August 1975, the Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s

Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Budapest Memorandum) of 5

December 1994, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and the

Russian Federation of 31 May 1997, and other international agreements,

recalling

that eight years ago, the Russian Federation violated the these treaties and obligations

assumed thereunder and carried out the occupation and annexation of part of the territory of Ukraine,

namely, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, through the use of military

force,

having regard

to the fact that this act of aggression was condemned by the United Nations

General Assembly on 27 March 2014 under Resolution 68/262, which expressed support for

Ukraine’s sovereignty and the integrity of its territory and affirmed the commitment of the United

Nations to recognising Crimea as part of the territory of Ukraine,

noting

that, while ignoring the legitimate expectations of Ukraine and the international

community concerning the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the Russian Federation has

not only continued its occupation and annexation of Crimea, but has also carried out acts of

destabilisation in the east of Ukraine,

stressing

that the Russian Federation has once again flagrantly violated international law and

international agreements, including the Minsk agreements, by the signing by the President of the

Russian Federation, on 21 February 2022, of decrees recognising the territories controlled by the

armed groups created by Russia in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk,

having regard

to the unprecedented amassing of the armed forces of the Russian Federation on

the borders of Ukraine and the open military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

and its people, which began on 24 February 2022,

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pointing out

that Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine is being carried out with the aim

of seizing control of this state and overthrowing the legitimately elected Ukrainian government,

considering

these actions of the Russian Federation as part of the Russian Federation’s policy

pursued since 2008 and targeting its neighbouring countries that have chosen the path of freedom,

democracy and rapprochement with the EU or NATO,

noting

that the Russian Federation has already carried out the occupation of part of the

territories of Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine and is currently carrying out the further occupation of

Ukraine and the creeping annexation of Belarus,

pointing out

the active involvement of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in the Russian

Federation’s strategy of aggression against Ukraine and the amassing of Russian troops on the

territory of Belarus,

being convinced

that the actions of the Russian Federation have a significant negative impact

not only on the security of the EU and NATO, in particular, of its eastern members; but also on the

security of Europe as a whole,

standing

against

the attempts to return Europe to the days of sharing spheres of influence,

considering

that the international community must take decisive action to defend the democratic

world order in response to the attack undertaken against it by the Russian Federation and Belarus and

that the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States of America (hereinafter: the

‘US’) have a particular responsibility for Europe’s security, including the future of Ukraine,

appreciating

the long-standing contribution of the US to strengthening European security,

committing

to urgently reinforce in Lithuania, before the end of this year, the host country’s

capacity, to create the necessary infrastructure which would enable the rapid and smooth deployment

of Allied forces and their operation on the territory of the country,

condemns

the military aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation and Belarus and

the attempt to overthrow the legitimately elected Ukrainian government;

expresses

its strong support for the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity of Ukraine

and the inviolability of its internationally recognized borders;

calls on

the parliaments of its allies, the EU Member States and NATO member countries:

– to immediately grant to Ukraine the status of EU candidate country and provide Ukraine

with a NATO Membership Action Plan;

– to provide all possible bilateral military, economic, political, humanitarian and legal support

to Ukraine;

– to urgently initiate a resolution of the United Nations Security Council urging the Russian

Federation and Belarus to immediately cease their aggression against Ukraine, as well as to urgently

appeal to Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres to expel the Russian Federation

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from its permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council, the main body of the United

Nations responsible for maintaining international peace and security;

– to immediately terminate the Russian Federation's membership of the Organisation for

Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Council of Europe, and to exclude the Russian

Federation from all international sports and cultural organisations;

– to impose tough new personal and sectoral sanctions on all key usurpers of power in the

Russian Federation and Belarus, including Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, their aids,

supporters, and major state-owned enterprises and banks, as well as secondary sanctions on those

enterprises and banks of the EU Member States and NATO member countries that are cooperating

with Russian enterprises and banks subject to sanctions;

– to restrict, to the maximum extent possible, the access of the Russian and Belarusian regimes

and their supporters to the financial resources of the EU Member States and NATO member countries,

by disconnecting Russia from the system of international interbank financial settlements (SWIFT)

during the period of aggression against Ukraine;

– to accelerate, to the maximum extent possible, the formation of Europe's strategic energy

independence by ending its dependence on Russian fossil fuels; to halt the geopolitical Nord Stream

2 and Ostrovets nuclear power plant projects;

– to continue and expand the ban on the transfer of any strategically important technology to

Russia and Belarus;

– to continue this policy until the full withdrawal of troops of the Russian Federation from the

sovereign territories of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus and the holding of transparent and

fair elections will be held in Russia and Belarus in line with international standards;

calls on

the European Union to significantly strengthen and renew its support for Russia's

democratic civil society, as its continued existence is the hope for lasting peace and stability in

Europe;

appeals

to the societies of the Russian Federation and Belarus to influence the leaders of their

countries and to oppose their aggression against Ukraine;

calls on

the EU Member States and the European Council to take international leadership by

bringing together all states of the democratic world to provide support to Ukraine and to strive for the

widest possible accession of the world to sanctions against the Russian and Belarusian regimes;

calls for

strengthening the resilience of the societies of the EU Member States and NATO

member countries to hybrid threats from hostile countries and their special services.

Speaker of the Seimas

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen