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Proposal text
The GPC unequivocally condemns Russia's illegal destabilization, invasion, and on-going occupation of Ukraine.
The GPC supports all reasonable means, including providing protective weapons to Ukraine, to end Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukrainian territory recognized by the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
Type of Proposal
Public policy that the party would represent
Objective / Benefit
This policy proposal is designed to update previous Green Party policy with regards to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. It is a proposal that will better reflect the reality of the situation since the illegal and unprovoked mass invasion of Ukraine by the Russian state in February 2022, in line with public statements by sitting Members of Parliament since that time.
Furthermore this proposal brings the Green Party in line with the will of the democratically elected institutions of Ukraine, Canada’s international partners, and Ukrainians in general to pressure the Russian state to vacate all sovereign Ukrainian territory lost since 2014.
If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
G14-P062 Ukrainian - Russian Conflict
List any supporting evidence for your proposal
Elizabeth May, MP, calling for seizure of Russian oligarch's BC home: https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/elizabeth-may-calls-for-seizure-of-b-c-property-used-by-harry-and-meghan/
Elizabeth May, MP, address to the House of Commons: https://elizabethmaymp.ca/elizabeth-may-responds-to-president-zelenskyys-address-to-the-canadian-parliament/
Ukraine's stance on 1991 borders: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-president-says-1991-borders-must-be-recognised-adviser-2022-03-17/
Global Greens stand in solidarity with the people in Ukraine against the Russian war of aggression: https://globalgreens.org/gg_resolution/emergency-resolution-ecocide-in-the-kakhovka-region-global-greens-stand-in-undivided-solidarity-with-the-people-in-ukraine-against-the-russian-war-of-aggression/
European Greens R14: https://europeangreens.eu/sites/europeangreens.eu/files/R14%20European%20Greens%20continue%20to%20stand%20in%20undivided%20solidarity%20with%20Ukraine_2.pdf
Budapest Memorandum of 1994, where the Russian Federation, United Kingdom, and United States of America agreed to safeguard the sovereignty of several nations established borders at the time, including Ukraine (Page 169, Section 1): https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdf
Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the group or groups?
N/A
Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
Yes
Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
English
This proposal has been accepted because:
This policy was amended at the 19th GM to:
BE IT RESOLVED that the GPC unequivocally condemns Russia's illegal destabilization, invasion, and on-going occupation of Ukraine.
BE IT FURTHER REVOLVED that the GPC supports all reasonable means to end Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukrainian territory recognized by the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
This amended version was adopted with 85% voted in favour of adopting this motion at the 19th General Meeting
95.2% voted in favor of adopting this motion in the post-General Meeting Ratification Vote. This motion is now official GPC policy and will be added to the Membership Approved Policy - Green Book.
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Anti-war and non-violence should not be so easily laid aside to take sides in a conflict. While I agree that one must condemn violent "solutions" to conflict, this can be done with balance.... without "piling on" or taking sides. The use of the word, "unprovoked", is a formulaic ( and dishonest) way of avoiding the long standing record of provocations by Ukraine and NATO countries.
Aside from the atrocities committed by the post-coup governments and their supporters in Ukraine, NATO and Nato countries took sides and piled-on in arming one side of the civil war that began promptly following the Maidan coup. We have allowed all of that to go under the radar, and continue to do so when resorting to the fiction that the conflict began in February 2022.
And no, this does not imply that we should take sides against Ukraine, but we should condemn atrocities on either side, and call for fully qualified international investigation (not by political hacks) of all alleged atrocities on either side, including the sabotage of peace negotiations.
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