APK-N recommends genocide recognition of Holodomor in Ukraine
Published: Tuesday, Jul 2nd 2024, 17:20
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The National Council is to recognize the millions of deaths by starvation in Ukraine in the 1930s for which Stalin was responsible as an act of genocide. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council (AKP-N) has adopted a motion for a corresponding declaration by the National Council.
The ACP-N approved the motion by 15 votes to 8 with 2 abstentions, as reported by the parliamentary services on Tuesday. As a result of this decision and for formal reasons, the postulate "Recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide. Remember - commemorate - admonish" was withdrawn, the statement continued.
In February last year, the Federal Council wrote that it recognized the suffering and victims on the territory of present-day Ukraine as a result of the Holodomor in 1932/33, but that the legal assessment of certain atrocities was not the responsibility of states, but rather of courts and international bodies with a corresponding mandate.
The so-called Holodomor is the famine brought about by the Stalinist regime, which cost the lives of at least three million people in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933.
To date, parliaments in several countries have recognized the Holodomor as genocide, including Germany, France, Poland, the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as the EU Parliament.
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