Estonia urges the EU to implement an entry ban on those involved in the Savchenko case
The Estonian Parliament wants the European Union to ban entry to the Russian officials responsible for the arrest, detention and unlawful condemnation of Nadiya Savchenko. This is reported in the statement taken during the meeting of the Estonian Parliament on the 15th of March, 2016.
"The Parliament calls to ban the officials of the Russian Federation responsible for the detention, imprisonment and illegal trial of Savchenko from entering into the territory of the European Union", a statement informed.
Estonian deputies urge the Russian Federation to immediately release Savchenko and pass her to Ukraine. "The Russian Federation continues the trial of the detainees based on trumped-up charges. The situation has, in fact, turned into a political act of revenge," they said.
The document also stresses that Russia, taking into custody and illegally holding in custody of the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament), has violated international law, including the Geneva Convention of August 12, 1949, on the treatment of prisoners of war and the Minsk Protocol of September 5, 2014, citing paragraph 5, asking for the "immediate release of all hostages and illegally detained persons".
Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Waszczykowski, said that the EU can bind relations with the Russian Federation to the case with Savchenko. The Czech Republic is also committed to impose sanctions against the involved persons in the case of the Ukrainian pilot, Nadiya Savchenko.
More than 20 Foreign Ministries around the world have demanded the release of Ukrainian pilot, Nadiya Savchenko.