The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová together with the President of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil participated in the 3rd Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimean Platform.
Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová and Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil participated in the parliamentary summit of the Crimean Platform. The meeting following last year’s event held in Prague took place, this time in Riga, Latvia. In her speech, the Speaker called on the participants of the summit to provide even greater political, economic, and military support to the defending Ukraine. Only in this way can Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea be ended and a just peace achieved throughout the country.
“Keeping the issue of Crimea in the public mind is important, but it alone will not restore freedom to the people of Crimea. It will not help abducted children to return to their families. It will neither restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine nor serve international law. The only way to truly restore freedom and achieve justice in Crimea and in the whole of Ukraine is to win the war,” said the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, in her speech.
A two-day summit of more than fifty leading representatives of legislatures from around the world took place this year in the Latvian capital, Riga. It followed on from the previous meeting organized last October in Prague.
“It has been 10 years since the illegal annexation of Crimea and more than 2 and a half years since the February continuation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, it was only after February’s brutal and aggressive invasion of Ukraine by Russia that some democratic countries finally sobered up and realized that trying to achieve long-term peaceful coexistence with non-democratic countries by creating mutual strategic economic dependence was a mistake. The opposite is true. By supporting our strategic economic dependence on non-democratic countries, we increase the vulnerability of the democratic community. The continuation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is clear evidence of this. Our job is to learn from this mistake. Ukraine’s future is also our future,” added Senate President Miloš Vystrčil.
Among the adopted conclusions of the summit is among other things, a joint condemnation of human rights violations, the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, or the arrest of political opponents in the territories illegally occupied by Russia. In addition, the participants pledged to insist on the thorough investigation and punishment of all war crimes committed by Russian troops.
“All the ingredients are known and available. More military aid without meaningless restrictions, more economic support, more effective sanctions, more intense political and diplomatic pressure. It is up to us, the political leaders, to mobilize sufficient political will and social agreement for all this. Many people in our countries are tired of war and fear its escalation. Our common duty is to achieve a just peace, which cannot be done otherwise than by winning the war,” concluded the speaker of the House of Representatives, Markéta Pekarová Adamová.
From 2021, the Crimean Platform brings together related world partners with the aim of jointly confronting the impacts and threats of the illegal Russian occupation of Crimea and coordinating international efforts to end it definitively.