Russia’s illegal temporary occupation and unlawful annexation of Ukrainian territories, its occupation of the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali/South Ossetia regions of Georgia, as well as its arbitrary and unlawful actions in the Transnistria region of Moldova, violate international law. The so-called parliamentary (State Duma) elections held in these territories have no legitimate basis, and Latvia does not recognise them. Latvia condemns the holding by the Russian Federation of the so-called State…
Russia’s illegal temporary occupation and unlawful annexation of Ukrainian territories, its occupation of the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali/South Ossetia regions of Georgia, as well as its arbitrary and unlawful actions in the Transnistria region of Moldova, violate international law. The so-called parliamentary (State Duma) elections held in these territories have no legitimate basis, and Latvia does not recognise them. Latvia condemns the holding by the Russian Federation of the so-called State Duma elections on the Crimean Peninsula and in Sevastopol, in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, in the Transnistria region of Moldova, as well as in Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali/South Ossetia regions. Latvia reiterates its…
