A bipartisan resolution reaffirming the United States support for Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova has been introduced to the US Congress by Republican Congressman Ted Poe of Texas on June 20.
The resolution – Affirming United States support to the nations of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova in their effort to retain political sovereignty and territorial integrity – has been co-sponsored by eight other congressmen from the Republican and Democratic parties.
The resolution was introduced in anticipation of the visit of the parliamentary speakers of the three countries planned next week in Washington D.C.
“The introduced document calls for all personnel and equipment belonging to Russian security and armed forces to immediately withdraw from the sovereign territory of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as calls for the Russian Federation to cease its destabilizing activities in Transnistria in Moldova, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, and the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, as well as to terminate its forcible and illegal annexation of Crimea, and calls on the United States Government, United States allies in Europe, the United Nations, and international partners to continue to pressure the Government of the Russian Federation to uphold its international obligations,” reads the information released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.
The resolution once again highlights that the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, one-fifth of Georgia’s sovereign territory, remain under Russian occupation since the aftermath of Russia’s August 2008 invasion of Georgia.
The resolution needs to be voted on by the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In case of approval the next voting will be held at the plenary session of the US congress.
