; 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; Whereas, since 2014, Russia has been in direct violation of its obligations under the Helsinki Final Act with respect to its violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity; Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission has reported human rights violations in Crimea against the Crimean Tatars, ethnic Ukrainians, and non-Russian Orthodox religious minorities; Whereas, in November 2018, Russian warships fired on and seized Ukrainian naval ships near the Crimean Peninsula in the Kerch Strait and captured 24 Ukrainian sailors; Whereas, in May 2019, the United Nations Tribunal for the Law of the Sea declared that Russian authorities must release the detained Ukrainian sailors by June 25, 2019; Whereas, by June 26, 2019, Russia had yet to release the 24 detained sailors; and Whereas despite the lack of action taken by Russia to remove troops from Crimea, release the detained sailors, and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the Council of Europe reinstated full rights in the Council to Russia in a vote 118 in favor and 62 against: Now, therefore, be it