January 30, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine had a telephone conversation with President of PACE
January 30, Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Ukraine had a telephone conversation with President of the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe 
Anne Brasseur.
The Foreign Minister of Ukraine expressed gratitude
to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the
support of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and attention
to the fate of people who are suffering as a result of actions of illegal armed
groups in eastern Ukraine, she expressed in her speech during a session of the
Assembly on January 26, 2015.
In the context of the adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe on 28 January, 2015, Resolution 2034 Challenge, on substantive
grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the
delegation of the Russian Federation, and as a result the Russian delegation
was again deprived of voting rights in the Assembly and other rights under this
institution, it was emphasized that
Ukraine stands for a political dialogue, but will never be tolerant of
violations of the basic principles of the Council of Europe.
Moreover, the Minister expressed gratitude to
the President of the PACE for the call to release Nadiya Savchenko, and uttered hope the Assembly would draw attention to this issue in the future to facilitate it
to be resolved as soon as possible.
P. Klimkin focused separately on the illegal detention by the Russian occupation
authorities of Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Ahtem Chiygoz on January 29, 2015, in the Autonomous Republic of
Crimea. It was stressed that Ukraine takes this act as another
case of terrible persecution and repression against the Crimean Tatar national minority by the Russian
occupation authorities and the violation of international law and principles of
the Council of Europe.
The
Ukrainian Foreign Minister urged the President of the Council of Europe’s
Parliamentary Assembly to assess the specified unlawful actions.