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Britain and the EU reached a post-Brexit trade deal in December – after almost nine months of fraught negotiations. Anounced on Christmas Eve, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as a jumbo Canada-style deal and declared: “All our red lines about returning sovereignty have been achieved. “Everything that the British public were promised during the 2016 referendum and in the general election last year is delivered by this deal.
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“Georgia has won two interstate disputes against Russia. Their implementation is the common responsibility of each member of the Council of Europe,” Mariam Kvrivishvili, a member of the Georgian parliamentary delegation, said in a speech at the PACE winter session.
According to Kvrivishvili, the Parliament of Georgia adopted a resolution on foreign policy earlier this month, which is the first resolution approved by the newly elected parliament. The document presents a new paragraph on the further intensification of efforts in the international disputes against Russia. It is one of the key foreign policy priorities of the Georgian government.
“I want to emphasize that Georgia has won two interstate disputes against Russia. The deportation case is about Russia’s coordinated policy to detain and deport many Georgian citizens. Russia is obliged to pay 10,000,000 euros to Georgia for the moral damage caused to at least 1,500 Georgian citizens. As
MEP Marina Kaljurand calls on Russia to end occupation of Georgian territories 10:48, 25.01.2021
European Parliament member, Marina Kaljurand, echoed “the ECHR historic judgment in the inter-state case of Georgia vs. Russia (II) on the August 2008 war.”
Kaljurand said, “this much-awaited ruling highlights two important elements.”
“First, the ECHR acknowledges that the Russian Federation has been exercising continued, effective control over Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region / South Ossetia since August 12, 2008. Second, the ECHR establishes numerous grave violations of the European Convention of Human Rights by the Russian Federation during and in the war aftermath. Its failure to investigate war crimes and systematic human rights abuses in the occupied regions ever since, as well as its refusal to enable ethnic Georgians to return to their homes,” MEP noted.
Europe s rights court accepts Ukraine case against Russia
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo, a Ukrainian man stands in protest in front of gunmen in unmarked uniforms as they stand guard in balaklava, on the outskirts of Sevastopol, Crimea. The European Court of Human Rights decided Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, to start considering Ukraine s complaint against alleged human rights violations in the Russia-annexed Crimea. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov, File)
MOSCOW – Europe’s top human rights court agreed Thursday to look into Ukraine’s complaint against alleged human rights violations in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula.