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The resolution, among other things, contains an appeal to the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the EU countries to take a decision to stop the Nord Stream -2 project
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The European Parliament resolution calling for increased sanctions against Russia in connection with the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny received the support of a majority of European parliamentarians in a plenary session on September 17 in Brussels. Reported by German wave.
532 MEPs voted in favor of the resolution “On the situation in Russia: the poisoning of Alexei Navalny”, 84 opposed it, 72 MPs abstained.
In this document, the European Parliament advocated the following steps:
- “urgent launch of an international investigation” into the Navalny poisoning with the participation of the EU, the UN, the Council of Europe and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW);
- an appeal to the Russian authorities to cooperate fully with the OPCW to ensure an impartial international investigation and prosecution of those implicated in the crime against Alexei Navalny;
- the Nord Stream 2 project should stop;
- The EU should adopt a list of large-scale restrictive measures as soon as possible and strengthen existing sanctions against Russia “;
- the use of a sanctions mechanism, with the help of which it will be possible to find and freeze accounts in the EU territory belonging to corrupt persons exposed in the investigations of the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund.
The European Parliament asks the EU foreign ministers at a meeting on September 21 to “take an active position” on these issues.
The resolution also notes that the Novichok family nerve agent is “a chemical weapon that can only be created in state military laboratories and cannot be acquired by private parties, but if this happens, then this is a violation by Russia of its obligations. international “.
The highest legislative body of the EU stressed that the use of chemical weapons in any circumstance is a crime under international law.
It was previously reported that the German government is open to the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation in connection with the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but if we are talking about “Nord Stream -2, will have to wait for the EU’s response, as “it is not just a German project”. One hundred companies from twelve European countries participate in it.
As a reminder, on August 20, during his return to Tomsk, Alexei Navalny fell ill during the flight, causing the plane to make an emergency landing. The Russian opponent was hospitalized in serious condition. On August 21, Omsk doctors allowed the politician to be hospitalized in Germany. Now he is in treatment in a German hospital. Alexey Navalny was brought out of an artificial coma and unplugged from the ventilator.
The fact that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok group was confirmed first by a German military laboratory, and then by laboratories in two more countries: France and Sweden.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague has also received samples and is taking steps to test them in its reference laboratories.
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