The deputies of the Latvian Seimas on Thursday, August 11, adopted a declaration declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. Excerpts from the statement are published on the country’s parliament website.

“The Seimas recognizes Russia’s violence against the civilian population, committed for political purposes such as terrorism, and Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, and calls on other like-minded countries to express the same opinion,” the statement said. communicated. Latvian MPs also called on EU countries to immediately suspend the issuance of tourist and entry visas for citizens of Russia and Belarus.

“To achieve the goals of its illegal and aggressive war, Russia seeks to intimidate and demoralize the Ukrainian people and the armed forces, paralyze the functioning of the state to occupy Ukraine, that is, Russia commits this violence to achieve political goals,” said Rihards Kols, chairman of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs.

According to the AFP agency, Russia’s actions against the people of Ukraine are called “targeted genocide” in the document.

Lithuanian Seimas calls Russia a terrorist state

In May, the Lithuanian Seimas recognized the Russian military invasion of Ukraine as genocide, and Russia itself as a state that supports terrorism. In late July, the New York Times reported that a bipartisan group of members of the US House of Representatives filed an act recognizing Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism. If approved by the US Congress and signed into law, the measure will bypass the resistance of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and include the Russian Federation on the list, which already includes North Korea, Syria, Cuba and Iran.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs allowed diplomatic relations with the United States to be broken in the event that Washington declared Russia a sponsor of terrorism.