EP report highlights need for “stronger”, “more ambitious” efforts to address Russian aggression against Ukraine, Georgia
The European Parliament has adopted a report on the role of preventive diplomacy in tackling frozen conflicts around the world. Photo: EP press office o
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A European Parliament report adopted on Wednesday highlighted the need for “stronger and more ambitious, credible, strategic, tangible and unified” European Union action to address frozen conflicts across the word, ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine and the consequences of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
In the report, the EP recommended the European Commission, the EU Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to “enhance their role and meaningful involvement in the processes of conflict prevention and resolution”.
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The body stressed Russia’s ”illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression” against Ukraine, and against Georgia in August 2008, and its consequences around the world highlighted the need for more robust efforts by the bloc and the necessity of the EU setting its own strategic objectives.
Capabilities should be developed and pursued to avoid repeating “prior mistakes” and learning from them, it added.
The EU should commit all the necessary financial resources to tackle the rapidly increasing geopolitical challenges and invest more in preventive diplomacy and other conflict prevention measures to prevent conflicts from spreading, as they are detrimental to the social and economic development of the affected areas”, the report said.
It also stressed the bloc should respond to the “instability” in the wider South Caucasus region and strengthen its diplomatic efforts in the context of the Geneva International Discussions - the format launched in 2008 to address Georgia’s conflict issues - with the aim of ensuring that Russia fulfils its obligations under the EU-brokered ceasefire agreement of August 12, 2008 to withdraw its troops from occupied Georgian regions.
The Council of Europe meeting of the Ministers' Deputies on Tuesday adopted its decision on 'the Council of Europe and the conflict in Georgia', supporting Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, “clearly calling on” Russia to fulfil its international obligations and completely withdraw its forces from the country’s territory.
The Georgian foreign office on Thursday highlighted the “destructive” stance of representatives of Russia and its occupation regimes at the 58th round of the Geneva International Discussions, a platform facilitating talks between the Georgian Government and de facto authorities in the country’s Russian-occupied regions.
Toivo Klaar, the European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia who also co-chairs the Geneva International Discussions on conflicts on the territory of the country, on Wednesday highlighted the importance of the platform amid Moscow’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Friday said Georgia-Russia relations were limited to “one international platform” in the form of the Geneva International Discussions on matters related to conflicts on the territory of the country.