RESOLUTION ON RESTORATION OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF UKRAINE 1. Aiming to uphold the purposes and principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter and the Helsinki Final Act, in particular concerning respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and inviolability of frontiers of States, as well as non-intervention in internal affairs, peaceful settlement of disputes, and refraining from the threat or use of force, 2. Recalling the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Resolution on Clear, Gross and Uncorrected Violations of Helsinki Principles by the Russian Federation (2014), Resolution on the Continuation of Clear, Gross and Uncorrected Violations of OSCE Commitments and International Norms by the Russian Federation (2015), Resolution on Adherence to the Helsinki Principles in Inter-State Relations Across the OSCE Area (2015), and Resolution on Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol (2016), 3. Taking into account the UN General Assembly resolution 68/262 of 27 March 2014 Territorial Integrity of Ukraine, the Declaration of the 1034th (special) OSCE Permanent Council meeting of 20 January 2015, the UN Security Council resolution 2202/2015 of 17 February 2015 concerning the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, and the UN General Assembly Resolution 71/205 of 19 December 2016 on the Situation of Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol (Ukraine), 4. Expressing deep concern over restrictions affecting human rights, fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law in the Russian Federation, 5. Recognizing the connection between internal oppression and violation of human rights and freedoms and Russia’s external aggression and destabilizing behaviour toward neighbouring and nearby States, 6. Stressing the ongoing campaign of discrimination and persecution targeting in particular the Crimean Tatar and ethnic Ukrainian communities in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as the unwillingness of the Russian Federation to grant unimpeded access to international human rights monitoring missions and human rights non-governmental organizations to the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, 7. Taking into account the conduct by Russian authorities of illegal parliamentary elections in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on 18 September 2016, 8. Taking note of the ongoing proceedings at the International Court of Justice in the cases launched by Ukraine against the Russian Federation under the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism adopted by the General Assembly of 30