Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee passes a statement labeling Russia a state supporting terrorism

• Published date: 02 August 2022
• Publication title: LETA

RIGA, Aug 2 (LETA) - Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday endorsed an official statement labeling Russia's violence against civilians in Ukraine and other countries as terrorism and Russia as a state supporting terrorism.

The Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rihards Kols (National Alliance) told LETA that the statement "On Russia's Targeted Military Attacks on Ukrainian Civilians and Public Buildings" urges other like-minded countries to also label Russia a state that supports terrorism.

Kols said at the Foreign Affairs Committee meeting today that the committee would ask Saeima to review the statement at its next meeting. MP Atis Lejins (New Unity) said that Saeima could convene for an extraordinary meeting on August 11.

The committee says in the statement that Russia is targeting Ukrainian civilian population, using suffering and intimidation as a tool in its attempts to demoralize the Ukrainian people and armed forces, paralyze the country's ability to act in order to occupy Ukraine and achieve its political goals.

In the statement, Saeima members categorically condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the support and involvement of the Belarusian regime, and call on the transatlantic community and its partners to urgently step up and implement comprehensive sanctions against Russia in order to put a halt to Russia's military aggression in Ukraine.

Saeima members call for increasing military, financial, humanitarian and diplomatic support for Ukraine and supporting initiatives that condemn Russia's military activities in Ukraine. They call for the perpetrators to be held accountable, demand that Russia be isolated from international and regional organizations, and that equivalent sanctions be imposed on Belarus as a supporter of Russia's military aggression.

The statement calls on...