PACE president urges members not to get used to war in Ukraine

The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox, has called on parliamentarians not to get used to the war in Ukraine and to continue to do everything to end the suffering of the Ukrainian people.

He stated this in his opening speech at the PACE summer session, Ukrinform reports.

At the beginning of the meeting, Kox invited members to hold a minute of silence for all the victims of the war in Ukraine.

"This horrible war should never become a normality for us, we should defy any temptation to get used to it," he said.

At the same time, he again called on the Russian authorities and all Russian citizens to immediately end the war of aggression against Ukraine. "There is not a single reason to continue this war, which should never have been started," Kox said.

He stressed the need to take the necessary steps to avoid wars on the European continent in the future.

"The multilateral system that we have in Europe failed to prevent this war of aggression against Ukraine. [...] We must now ask ourselves what went wrong and how to strengthen our multilateral architecture and rebuild it in an effective and sustainable way," Kox said.

He also noted that "we have now a unique momentum to reconstruct and to improve this architecture." "The war united people in Europe and we can now do what seemed impossible before that war," Kox said.

The one-week-long PACE summer session began in Strasbourg on June 20.

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