Bastiaan BELDER (EDD, NL) Europe of Democracies and Diversities (includes the members of the UK Independence Party)
Report with a proposal for a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on EU-Russia relations (2003/2230(INI))
Doc.: A5-0053/2004
Procedure : Own-initiative
Debate : 26.02.2004
Vote: 26.02.2004
MEPs believe that the deportation of the entire Chechen people to Central Asia on 23 February 1944 on the orders of Stalin constitutes an act of genocide.
European Parliament recommendation to the Council on EU-Russia relations (2003/2230(INI)):
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15. Believes that the deportation of the entire Chechen people to Central Asia on 23 February 1944 on the orders of Stalin constitutes an ACT of GENOCIDE within the meaning of the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 and the Convention for the Prevention and Repression of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948;
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