Parliamentarians from 20 countries reject the legitimacy of Russian "elections" in the occupied territories
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More than two dozen heads of parliamentary foreign affairs committees, including the United States and Israel, signed a statement denying the legitimacy of the elections held by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian territories.
23 heads of foreign affairs committees of two dozen parliaments - from the Baltic states to the United States and Israel - signed a statement rejecting the legitimacy of the elections held by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian territories, said on Thursday the chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Foreign Affairs Committee , Žygimantas Pavilionis, UNN reports.
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"Joint statement of the heads of the foreign affairs committees of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Romania, Israel, the Czech Republic, Spain, Moldova, Luxembourg, Ireland, Iceland: we unequivocally deny the legitimacy of the elections held by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian territories. ... devoid of any semblance of democratic validity," Pavilionis wrote in X, publishing a copy of the document.
