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The European Parliament today approved a resolution on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, urging Russia to investigate the incident, and EU member states to strengthen sanctions against Russia.
MEPs today adopted by majority vote a resolution on tougher sanctions against Russia in connection with the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. About this on your Twitter reported Ricard Jozwiak, journalist for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
532 deputies supported the resolution, 84 opposed it, 72 deputies abstained.
the European Parliament has adopted a resolution on #Navalny (532 in favor, 84 against, 72 abstentions) calling for more sanctions against #Russia and rapid adoption of an EU #Magnitsky Act
– Rikard Jozwiak (@RikardJozwiak) September 17, 2020
According to Deutsche Welle, the European Parliament called for the urgent launch of an international investigation into the Navalny poisoning with the participation of the European Council, the UN, the Council of Europe and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The parliamentarians called on the Russian authorities to cooperate with the OPCW “to ensure an impartial international investigation and bring to justice those involved in the crime against Navalny.”
According to the resolution, the foreign ministers of the EU countries at the September 21 meeting should “take an active position” on this issue. The European Parliament “demands that the EU adopt a list of large-scale restrictive measures as soon as possible and strengthen existing sanctions against Russia.”
Furthermore, the European Parliament called on the authorities of the EU member states to give priority attention to the approval and implementation in the near future of the Union’s sanctions mechanism in the field of human rights such as the Magnitsky list, which will include people and may provide for sectoral sanctions against the Russian authorities.
On August 20, the plane in which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow, urgently landed in Omsk due to the deteriorating state of the politician.
Navalny was unconscious in the toxic intensive care unit of the emergency hospital No. 1 in Omsk. On the morning of August 22, he was flown to the Charite clinic in Berlin.
On September 2, the German government announced that traces of a substance similar in composition to Novichok had been found in Navalny’s body. The biological material extracted from the politician was examined by a special laboratory of the German armed forces. The fact of the poisoning of Navalny with poison from the Novichok group was also confirmed by laboratories in France and Sweden.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Berlin’s statements about the Navalny poisoning were not supported by facts. The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, claims that at the time of his departure to Germany there were no traces of poison on the politician’s body.
The “Charite” doctors reported on September 7 that Navalny was brought out of a medical coma and disconnected from the ventilator. On September 14, German doctors reported that the politician Feel better and it’s already getting up. September 15 oppositionist published the first post after the poisoning On Instagram.
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