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Supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine and condemning Russian military aggression in Ukraine.

S. Res. 370 · 113th Congress · Mar 5, 2014 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That the Senate—
(1)
strongly condemns the Russian Federation's military incursion into Crimea, in clear violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and in contravention of international law;
(2)
calls on the Government of the Russian Federation to immediately withdraw all unauthorized military personnel from Crimea;
(3)
pledges to work urgently and in bipartisan fashion with the President to identify a comprehensive package of economic sanctions and other measures to compel President Vladimir Putin to remove his armed forces from Ukrainian territory and return that territory to full Ukrainian sovereign control;
(4)
calls upon the President to seek to reschedule a meeting of the G8 nations, to take place as soon as practicable, where the participating nations should consider a United States proposal to formally expel the Russian Federation;
(5)
urges the United States to propose to NATO that the Alliance immediately suspend operation of the Russia-NATO Council and expel the Russian Federation's military and diplomatic representation in NATO;
(6)
urges the United States to work with other members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to deploy monitors in Ukraine to help confirm that the security of the Russian-speaking population is not threatened;
(7)
urges the President to consider downgrading United States diplomatic representation with the Russian Federation, including refraining from sending a new United States ambassador to Moscow and closing United States consulates general in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok and requiring the Government of the Russian Federation to make reciprocal steps to close consulates in the United States;
(8)
calls on the President to utilize all tools, including the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 (title IV of Public Law 112–208; 126 Stat. 1502), to expand the Act’s list of sanctioned individuals to impose sanctions on all officials of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the chain of command responsible for the invasion of Crimea, leadership of the Duma responsible for condoning the invasion, and Crimean officials complicit in its execution;
(9)
urges the President to consider additional sanctions, such as suspension of eligibility of Russian citizens for temporary or seasonal United States work visas; and
(10)
urges the leadership of FIFA to reconsider its decision to place World Cup 2018 matches in Russia and instead award those games to a more worthy alternative country.