LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS SEIMO
DELEGACIJA NATO PARLAMENTINĖJE ASAMBLĖJOJE
SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
DELEGATION TO THE NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
Gedimino pr. 53, LT-01109 Vilnius, LITHUANIA Tel. + 370 5 239 6226 E-mail: [email protected]
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Gerald E. Connolly, President of the NATO PA
Heads of the National Delegations to the NATO PA
Vilnius, 10 March 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Ukrainians continue to struggle in the war against the Russian occupation forces. Russia ignores all
the standards of international law and violates
jus in bello
– the principle of fair warfare – by killing
civilians and destroying civilian and critical infrastructure (nuclear power plants, oil and gas storage
facilities, water supply facilities, electricity grids, etc.). Russian troops terrorise civilians by engaging
in robbery, wreaking devastation on their property and raping Ukrainian women. Finally, Russia
hinders the establishment of humanitarian corridors, and in the cases where Russia agrees to their
establishment, it only does so for treacherously blocking them or for opening fire on the fleeing
civilians.
The Delegation of the Republic of Lithuania to the NATO PA,
responding
to the invitation from Gerald E. Connolly, President of the NATO PA, to search our souls
and to explore ways in which parliaments and governments of individual states could contribute to
the provision of assistance to Ukraine in order to meet Ukraine’s current needs in warfare and enhance
its sovereignty, territorial integrity, right to self-defence, and independence;
reiterates its condemnation
of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and calls on NATO member
countries to provide all possible humanitarian, military, political, economic and social assistance that
Ukraine needs;