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"Mr President, one of the central themes of the Paşcu report is the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia. This act has led to an increased militarisation of the Black Sea, including the increased presence of short- and medium-range nuclear weapons as part of Russia’s ambitious programme to upgrade the Black Sea fleet. It is vital that the Member States of the EU work together, both within our Union and NATO, to meet what is a very real and concerning military threat to our security.
At this juncture, I take the opportunity to highlight the difficulties that those in the Crimea are now facing. There are soaring food prices and water shortages, and these are just part of the daily struggle that people are facing under Russian occupation. As feared, the Crimean tatars are being persecuted by the Russians, and ethnic Ukrainians are being expelled from the territory, with an increasing incidence of arrests, raids and police interrogations of their populations being reported. We have also seen incidents of violence against the Jewish population and their property. Indeed, in just the first week of the annexation, a synagogue was vandalised with swastikas. The West, and the European Union in particular, must stand united in condemning Putin’s revanchist doctrine of annexing territory by force."@en1
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