The National Assembly on Wednesday affirmed its “full support” for kyiv and condemned Russia’s “crime of aggression” against Ukraine, in a resolution adopted by a large majority.
Presented by the presidential majority groups, the text calls for “a protection zone around the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant” and affirms the “fullest support” of the Assembly for “Ukraine, its people, its sovereignty and its territorial integrity”. . The resolution, which has no legislative value, was adopted with 303 votes in favor (one vote against, 95 abstentions).
“Intensify sanctions”
It calls for “intensifying the sanctions” against Moscow and Vladimir Putin, for the government and the EU to support “any initiative that may favor the end of the conflict” and for “France to continue to participate actively in the reception of Ukrainian refugees.”
“Rest assured of the unwavering support that France will continue to provide Ukraine,” the Secretary of State for Development and Francophonie Chrysoula Zacharopoulou defended before the deputies.
“This vote comes at a crucial moment in the war,” Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, chairman of the European Affairs Committee, told MEPs, denouncing the Russian army’s desire to “use winter as a weapon of war.”
A text that fails to “turn on the lights of peace”
RN MP Laurence Robert-Dehault, insisting on her group’s support for the Ukrainian people, criticized the MP for asking for “always more sanctions without specifying which ones”.
“Russia is guilty of a war of aggression,” LFI deputy Aurélien Saintoul insisted, expressing surprise at a resolution “totally out of step with recent statements” by Emmanuel Macron to “open a path for negotiations.”
The two groups largely abstained, one LFI MP voting against. “France is already doing everything you ask of it,” said the president of the communist group André Chassaigne, lamenting that the resolution failed to “bring the lights of peace.”
Source: BFM TV
