Whereas, in February 2014, in direct opposition to international law, Russian troops and other officials began entering the Crimean Peninsula and occupying military and government infrastructure; Whereas, in March 2014, the Parliament of Russia approved the deployment of Russian troops on Ukrainian territory; Whereas, in April 2014, in response to the occupation, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) declared that the annexation of Crimea by Russia violated the Statute of the Council of Europe and Russia’s commitments to the Council; Whereas PACE ratified Resolution 1990 (2014), which included a motion suspending Russia’s voting rights, the right to be represented in the PACE’s leading bodies, and the right to participate in election observation missions; Whereas Russia’s occupation of Crimea in Ukraine has been widely condemned by the international community as a direct violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine; Whereas, on March 27, 2014, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 68/292 which called for states and international organizations to continue to recognize Crimea as a part of Ukraine; Whereas through Resolution 2034 (2015), PACE urged the Russian authorities to reverse the illegal annexation of Crimea, investigate allegations of human rights abuses, disband all paramilitary within the region, and reverse the closure of the Crimean Tatar television channel, ATR; Whereas PACE stated that The Assembly reserves the right to annul the credentials of the Russian delegation, if the Russian Federation does not de-escalate the situation and reverse the annexation of Crimea. ; Whereas, since 2014, Russia has continued to engage in acts of intimidation and direct violation of international law; Whereas, since 2014, Russia has been in direct violation of its obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in using threat and force against the territorial integrity of Ukraine