17. Recalling that the right to a fair trial is guaranteed by each State, and attempts to use justice as a tool for political persecution undermines the credibility of the judicial system as a whole, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 18. Reaffirms its full respect for the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders, which include the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol; 19. Reiterates its condemnation of the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the ongoing Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine in Donbas; 20. Recognizes that the Russian Federation has completely failed to implement the provisions of the previous OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolutions on violations of fundamental Helsinki principles and international norms on human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol; 21. Urges the Russian Federation to fully observe its obligations under international law as an occupying power and to implement UN General Assembly resolution 68/262 of 27 March 2014 on the Territorial Integrity of Ukraine, the Declaration of the 1034th (special) OSCE Permanent Council meeting of 20 January 2015, UN Security Council Resolution 2202/2015 of 17 February 2015 concerning the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, and 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); 22. Calls upon the Russian Federation to immediately grant unimpeded access to the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to international agencies, institutions, special procedures, and independent experts of the OSCE, the United Nations, and the Council of Europe, as well as to any human rights NGOs or media outlets that wish to visit, assess, and report on the situation in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol; 23. Encourages the OSCE Institutions to continue to take actions aimed at monitoring and reporting on the human rights situation in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol; 24. Urges the Russian Federation to reverse the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, to withdraw the Russian occupation forces from the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol and to bring them back under the control of the Government of Ukraine; 25. Calls on participating States to strictly refrain from any steps that could lead to direct or indirect recognition of the results of the illegal elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine); 32