The US Congress (House of Representatives) on March 23 voted a resolution on arms supplies to Ukraine. The document addressed to Barack Obama is a recommendation.
For the document voted 348 lawmakers, and 48 opposed it.
The resolution calls for the head of state "to use the authority granted him by the Congress to provide Ukraine lethal defensive weapons."
The content of the document noted that an independent, democratic and prosperous Ukraine meets the US national interest. "The resolution authors, the Republican Ed Royce and Democrat Eliot Engel said that the weapons are necessary for the protection of the Ukrainian people. The responsibility for the victims of the conflict in eastern Ukraine they laid on Russia. -02D-
Politics
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Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Alexander Bastrykin arrived in Grozny, where he held a meeting on the investigation of the crash of the plane "Azerbaijan Airlines".
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On 28 December, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.
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On December 28 president of Ukrain called to the president of Azerbaijan İlham Aliyev.
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The preliminary investigation into the case of Russian oligarch and former "state minister" of the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh, Ruben Vardanyan, has been completed. According to a joint statement by the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, Vardanyan has been charged under the following articles of the Azerbaijani Criminal Code: Article 100 (planning or waging aggressive war), Article 107 (deportation or coercion of the population), Article 109 (persecution), Article 112 (deprivation of liberty in violation of international law), Article 113 (torture), Article 114 (mercenary activities), Article 115 (violating laws and customs of war), Article 116 (violating laws and customs of war), Article 214 (terrorism), Article 214-1 (financing terrorism), Article 218 (organization of a criminal community), Article 228 (illegal trafficking in weapons), Article 270-1 (creating threats to aviation safety), Article 278 (violent seizure of power or violent retention of power, violent change of the constitutional order of the state), Article 279 (creation of illegal armed formations), Article 318 (illegal crossing of the Azerbaijani state border).
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