an aggressor seeking to destroy the foundations of the international legal order. in a democratic world, parliaments are an integral part of the formation of foreign policy decisions, because our countries act primarily in the interests of our societies, and parliamentarians have a direct mandate from their voters. our summit today is a place where we can discuss the situation and decide how we, parliamentarians , can contribute to victory, to the restoration of peace, to ensuring justice for the victims and irreversibility of punishment for the guilty. we have tools and must use them as parliamentarians. the key to victory and the restoration of peace is the liberation of the entire territory of ukraine from the invader, the entire internationally recognized territory, including the donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhya, kherson regions, which are temporarily. occupied and of course crimea and

sevastopol. no talks about peace or a truce are meaningless as long as the russian military remains on our internationally recognized territory. otherwise, dear friends, this is a war that will simply be a burden on the shoulders of our children. so we need more support of ukraine. because heroism is capable of defeating the enemy if he is....properly armed, and that is why we need sbo, arms and ammunition, and we never tire of asking and thanking for it. i urge you, dear parliamentarians, to support the respective efforts of your governments wherever possible, support them with political decisions, mobilize efforts, if it is a matter of passing the relevant national parliamentary procedures. fate depends on the speed of these decisions. and people's lives. next is

the strengthening of sanctions against russia. sanctions are our collective response to acts of aggression is a clear signal that we will steadfastly uphold the rule of law and the international legal order and international norms. this is a way to weaken the military and economic potential of russia and its ability to economically continue this war. yes, i know that a lot has already been done in this direction. sometimes difficult decisions for national economies, but important decisions for our future. i ask you, dear colleagues, parliamentarians, to take all appropriate legislative steps to implement these sanctions and closing all possible ways of bypassing them. ensuring regional security and protecting freedom of exploration in the black and azov seas is not only a purely regional problem. post question. food is a matter

of global food security, so i ask for support for all initiatives designed to ensure the unblocking of shipping, as well as the provision of alternative routes. we just broadcasted the beginning of the second parliamentary summit of the crimean platform, which this time takes place in prague, you can watch the continuation of the broadcast at on our pages on youtube, on facebook, all three of them will be open all the time, they opened, opened this parliamentary summit , the speaker of the chamber of deputies of the parliament of the czech republic, marketa pekarova adamova, also our ruslan stefanchuk gave an opening speech , they talked about the fact that now ukraine needs, the summit of the crimean platform will continue today and beyond, in fact, this is an important...

meeting, where it is such an international platform, where methods of coordination, joining efforts of different countries, more than 70 parliamentarians and parliamentary assemblies are taking part, representing five continents, including the south, south africa, south america , our correspondent, not our radio liberty correspondent, our colleague from the scene, sashko shevchenko, now tell us more about today's event. . sasha, congratulations, good morning, thank you for inviting me, if you allow me, i will immediately move on to what we already see and feel here, so now we are in the prague congress center, where the crimean platform is taking place, the second parliamentary summit of the crimean platform, i remember that, let me remind you, that the previous parliamentary summit took place in zagreb, and now marketa adamova pykarova offered, invited the participants to it. format to come here to

prague and indeed yesterday we spoke with the first deputy minister of foreign affairs of ukraine emine japarova, who confirmed to us that at the level of the ministry of foreign affairs, at the level of the president. at the level of the parliament , the task was set for the organizers to expand the geography, i.e. to make it so that as much as possible and even more more countries and parliamentary delegations participated in the format of the crimean platform. the day before, chairman of the verkhovna rada ruslan stepanchuk, he commented, said that delegations, more than 70 delegations should join the prague summit, and he said that he, for example, does not even remember any other similar confusion of so many parliaments, so many... parliamentary assemblies, so there is really a large representation here, today in the opening speeches it was said that at least 50 countries have their representatives here in prague,

and eight, eight countries and parliamentary delegations promised to send their video messages, and here i want to draw attention to what i especially saw, what is interesting, is that, for example, a country like poland has not yet officially confirmed 100%, that at least a video message will arrive, that is, there is no question of personal presence at all, but it is probably still unknown, we will be able to verify this today, whether there will be a video message from the polish representative at all, but there must be a marshal of the polish sejm, at least in video format, why is this significant, because if we recall the leadership summit of the crimean platform, three of them have already taken place, so the second leadership summit, which took place in 2022, was personally visited in kyiv by the president... andrzej duda, that quite a few leaders could allow when the full-scale invasion of ukraine lasted only six months, and it was such a symbol of great support, great solidarity with the ukrainian people, and that even the president of the country arrived in kyiv, in ukraine, which was then,

actually kyiv, only a few months had passed since the troops left the kyiv region, today the polish representative will not be there in person and even... it is not known whether there will be an appeal, well, what could this be related to, probably with a cooling, a certain cooling of relations between kyiv and warsaw, in particular we remember that even at the informal meeting, the eu ministers were not in kyiv either, there was no polish representative, and then there was also such a scandal when they said that poland did not come to the forum of defense industries in kyiv, this is the tension between filled with questions actually exports of ukrainian grain, and well. we can conclude that it is still going on, despite the fact that, despite the fact that elections have already taken place in poland and according to their previous, according to their results, it is likely that the party that is currently in power may not be able to form a new government. let's move on, what's more interesting, since the elections of the speaker are taking place in the usa, there is still no actual representative,

the lower house of congress, but still with a video address there will be a leader, actually, of the republican... majority in the committee of foreign affairs, the us senate, that is, there will still be a us representation, emine also told us about this yesterday, that it is also important, today, before today's summit, that they set such a task, to remind us that russia's military aggression began, in fact, from crimea, from everything started in crimea, and as emine japarova told us, this is such an important crimean lesson that it is necessary, the aggressor can only be stopped. by force it is impossible to choose the right words or the right formats in order to reconcile him, it does not work, and czechoslovakia, or rather the czech republic, the former czecho-slovakian, how does anyone know this, and today, in particular, the heads of the chambers

of the czech parliament talked about it, saško, can i ask you one question, i understand that we had to talk, and, ah, unfortunately, we we have to, we can't. broadcast now the speech of our president volodymyr zelensky sashko, thank you, we will be in touch. on the second crimean platform, you have a word. we apologize and ask you to wait a moment, because we are not hearing yet, mr. president. we ask for technical assistance, we ask to help, but, unfortunately, i understood that

they have some technical nuances there, while they are fixing everything there, we have a moment of time, the main topics of today's summit, the crimean platform, this is of course the war in ukraine, of course crimea and in general global security architecture, because security has now become a very fragile phenomenon, unfortunately not only in ukraine, but in the whole world, in fact, we are now waiting for the video address of our president, after the opening of the summit, and then during the meeting, which will take place today during day, will be approved the resolution, which should condemn russian aggression, unequivocally condemn russian aggression against ukraine and the occupation of crimea. well, if we are already mentioning historical analogies, because it is in fact that the destruction of the world

security map began with the occupation and annexation of crimea, then today is another memorable date, today is october 24, when the verkhovna rada in 1991 this year prepared all the foundations for today's war. then a resolution was passed on the nuclear-free status of ukraine, and, accordingly, ukraine. then accomplished several interesting things, that which concerned of intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles was obvious, the buttons were in moscow, the missiles were unstable, the moment that ukraine then had the world's third largest nuclear arsenal in the whole world, ukraine and only then somewhere there was china in my opinion at that time, if kermanch ukraine, the ukrainian people would not have elected former pro-moscow communists, for example, chornovol and others, then perhaps ukraine would have followed a different path and kept tactical nuclear weapons, which

could be kept absolutely clearly, what would have happened the main shield of deterrence for another nuclear country, which happens to be called the russian federation. so, uh, unlearned lessons of history, let's recall that then within the framework of nuclear uh, well, let's say, the elimination of nuclear potential, it was first done according to some strange, selected schemes. of funds, part of the nuclear, for some reason, the potential went to the aggressor country, to russia, as part of this disarmament, for some reason strategic bombers were presented to russia, one non-working one was left near myrhorod in a museum aviation, together with these bombers, and within the framework of nuclear weapons, transferred 555 missiles, which the muscovites are now firing at us, x55. it is so simple to understand what day today is october 24, how important it is for people to have brains and choose those who will not

do such decisions, which then lead to, unfortunately, the tragic pages, the history in which we are now straight and live, that is, if 32 years ago, a group of people who had the power in their hands, which we have given them, if these people had made a different decision, if they...' had more pro-ukrainian views, if they were thinking about the ukrainian state and not about something else, it is difficult to say what they were thinking about then , maybe after all, if a couple of tens of millions of ukrainians had voted differently, not for communists, russian communists, maybe today's war would not have happened, maybe it would not have happened, so we expect that either we will be able to hear the president's speech within the framework of... this crimean platform, this is the second parliamentary summit, or we will move

on, because we have what to talk about and to ask our guests, while we orientate ourselves in what is happening next, and well, we already have, we have information , the editors suggest that we are adding to the conversation at this moment serhiy danilov, deputy director of the center for middle eastern studies, glory to ukraine, mr. serhii, yes i i'm sorry, i don't... can you hear us, because we can hear you and see you very well, do you have a sound, sorry, i can't hear anything, communication problems, well, i'll tell you what what i wanted to tell you, because i like it, taras kyiv national university shevchenko banned russian sources and closed, what is important, programs for studying russian and belarusian languages, russian philology was different, in the institute of philology , they actually studied the russian language, they studied

russian literature, belarusian language and literature, as well as persian, but last year, after a full-scale invasion, all these programs were twisted, closed and forgotten, and moreover, the rector of the university says that it was not an emotional step, that this is actually such an important decision that should remain, it has a good example, in my opinion, yes, we now we will find out whether we have restored contact, we still have no contact, let us remind you that we want to talk about another war with serhii danilov. which continues in the middle east, this is israel's war against the terrorist party and the hamas army, and yes, but until they made a connection there, they made a qualitative connection with president zelensky, so let's listen to what the president says, but it will happen,

it a matter of time, thirdly, we note that pro-ukrainian sentiment in crimea is becoming more and more open, even though russia still controls this land, as in all other occupied areas of ukraine, people in crimea realize that russia will leave the world, and they are waiting for ukraine, the glory of russia becomes louder than the fear of the occupied people, and we clearly see that we have a lot of alliance in crimea. fourth: ukraine was able to return to the black sea the role of a security artery , on which global food stability depends, without our agricultural exports, the price crisis on the food market and social chaos become a threat to dozens of different nations in the space from the west coast of africa to bangladesh, to indonesia,

it is a cornerstone when ukrainian exports disappear. of food, the entire global food market is collapsing. first, together with the un and turkey, we were able to launch the black sea grain initiative, later we added a humanitarian grain initiative from ukraine, and when russia decided to destroy this food security architecture as well, we launched new temporary export routes from our seaports in addition to our exports through the danube proto region and ways of solidarity on the mainland. since the start of the new export corridor in chornoy almost 50 ships came to the sea to load, and even more 50 were declared to approach. and finally, finally, the fifth point, which is valuable.

this is something that should be reminded of today, on the day of the united nations, when 70 years ago the un charter came into force, the most respected international document, which affirms, in fact, the basic right of every nation, the right to life without aggression, annexation, and terror. once upon a time, at the beginning of the russian war against ukraine, many were ready to turn a blind eye to russia's seizure of crimea, saying that it would calm the aggressor, but on the contrary, it is only... fueled his ambitions, because it gave him faith in impunity, and we are engaged in dismantling russia's impunity, step by step, this is what our work in the un also gives, despite russia's abuse of the illegally obtained veto right, this is what our formula for peace, which is based on

the principles and purposes of the un charter, which is gradually becoming a global form. this is provided by the work of international legal institutions, in particular the international criminal court, which issued an arrest warrant for putin in the case of the abduction and deportation of children, it provides sanctions against russia, it provides a fundamental support from different countries of the world, different leaders for our state and courage, courage of our people. now is our task. maintain and increase the pressure on the occupier, and my appeal to you is simple: do not stop half-dog , it is not easy to clear the black sea from the terrorist fleet, but it is still much easier to clear the information environment from propaganda from russia, which is still trying to distort the achievements of our interaction and

undermine the democratic order , we need to stop russian propaganda. this will help us and save the souls of your people, yours societies, just as we are destroying the logistics of the occupier on the territory of our country, it is necessary to deprive the security and logistics of circumventing sanctions against russia through any intermediaries, whether it is the state, whether it is companies or individuals, the sanctions work, i urge you to the parliamentary control, the relevant sanctions regimes, that is how we listened to part of the video address of our president volodymyr zelenskyi oksano, as well as us. yes, mr.

serhiy, we hear you, glory to the heroes, i congratulate you, we are very glad to have you, we want to ask you more about the other, as if it would seem like a distant war in the middle east, but we have a common bridge, this common bridge, it is not... the probable cradle of civilization and democracy, a country, in the homen called iran, it is also with the russians, and against israel, and with hezbollah, with assad and so on , why, do you consider, within the framework of this israel -hamazov war, the possibility that a terrorist country, which is iran, unfortunately, will receive a military, military response to all its actions, including terrorist, within the framework of this

war, could there be a strike on iran, theoretically maybe, practically very unlikely, iran will not go to war, personnel like iran, yes, it will operate through its puppets, through hezbollah, and a dozen other organizations actually that have been created in all corners. the middle east, where the shiites live, and the task of iran is now to the maximum, to activate them for such an irritating fire and attack on american interests, on american bases, on the american fleet in the red sea, in the persian gulf, in the mediterranean sea, so that from diverting resources, but not entering directly into the war, because, well, the situation in iran itself is not as rosy for the regime as it seems, and a year ago we saw these huge protests, but just a few days

later another murder of a girl, a 16-year-old girl died after an attack by the morality police, although it is wrong , she was wearing a headscarf incorrectly, and in iran right now they are afraid of destabilization, so they are unlikely to go to war. ok, but if it were, we see that now the discussion is actually about whether the israel defense forces will go ahead with a ground operation in the gaza sector, or further will work remotely from the air, and there was a statement from both hezbollah and iran that if a ground operation begins in the gas sector, then they will enter the battle, opening, as they say, a second... front, these were threats, is macron actually doing something today, or is macron going to do something, we remember that france also has a certain influence in this situation, because the arab muslim community in france

is very large, in france there were a lot of protests against the attack on the gaza strip, on strip of gas, then macron can do something your visit to israel today? well, macron will not be able to do anything that, for example, will stop the planned operation, the operation will begin then, and if the israeli forces are ready on the one hand, and there will be a green light from washington, although even with a green light, issues can also begin without it, especially since there is a joint statement by the united states and leading european countries that israel has the right to defend itself, and this usually involves a ground operation in gas. regarding iran's hezbollah statements that they are there, now, oh, hold us seven, as soon as israel enters the gas sector, we will start a war, we must not forget that

this is a propaganda war, they can issue many statements, and from them we have heard a lot of absolutely empty, rhetoric, threats, which then end in nothing, so i would was guided by this, unfortunately, unfortunately, our company must develop dynamically, serhiy, ask for a thorough separate conversation, because today is such a busy day, but we must continue this conversation, mr. serhiy, thank you, the deputy director was with us serhiy danilov of the center for middle eastern studies, now we are going to take a short break, then news, stay with espresso. glaufix, a partner of the healthy look project. glaufix - protection and maintenance of your eyesight. sensation of impaired vision, discomfort in the eyes,

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