The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution, in the text of which Russia is called a country with a terrorist regime, the draft resolution is published on the assembly’s website.
Ukrainian MP and PACE delegate Maryna Bardina wrote in a tweet that 99 members out of 100 had voted in favour of the resolution.
“As the aggression continues, reaching new levels of violence and destruction, the Russian regime confirms its real terrorist nature, through its reckless and hateful narrative and spiteful contempt of the most basic human rights and rules of international law,” the resolution reads.
PACE called upon countries-members of the Council of Europe to condemn “the latest further escalation in the Russian Federation’s aggression” as well as “not recognise any effect of the sham ‘referendums’ organised by the Russian Federation as a pretext to try to annex swathes of Ukrainian territories”.
Previously, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called upon countries-members of the Council to “provide more support to Russian and Belarusian human rights defenders”.
On 7 October, the UN Human Rights Council voted in favour of appointing a Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Russian Federation. Seventeen countries voted in favour, among them Germany, the UK, Lithuania, Finland, France, Japan, Czechia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and the US.
