{"id":10020,"date":"2022-03-19T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:50:35","slug":"press-release-the-12th-extraordinary-session-of-the-danube-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/en\/2022\/03\/19\/press-release-the-12th-extraordinary-session-of-the-danube-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release: The 12<sup>th<\/sup> extraordinary session of the Danube Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 12<sup>th<\/sup> extraordinary session of the Danube Commission (DC) was held on 17<sup>th <\/sup>of March 2022 under the chairmanship of the President of the Danube Commission, H.E. Mrs. Ambassador Liubov Nepop, at the premises of the Danube Commission in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The session has been convened in order to discuss the violation of the Belgrade Convention regarding the Regime of Navigation on the Danube by the Russian Federation, in particular the infringement by this member state of the Danube Commission of Ukraine\u2019s sovereign rights as a Danube riparian country, in terms of violation of the Ukrainian territorial integrity and its borders \u2018inviolability, as well as the damaging of economic relations among the Danube countries.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12th-extra-session-collage-17.03.2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12th-extra-session-collage-17.03.2022.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12th-extra-session-collage-17.03.2022-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12th-extra-session-collage-17.03.2022-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12th-extra-session-collage-17.03.2022-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The participants of the session observed a minute\u2019s silence to commemorate the victims of the military aggression by the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the 12<sup>th<\/sup> extraordinary session the Representatives of the member states adopted the <em>Decision of the 12<sup>th<\/sup> extraordinary session of the Danube Commission concerning the military aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, violating the basic principles of the Belgrade Convention <\/em>(doc. DC\/SES-XII Extr.\/3). According to this decision the full powers of all representatives of the Russian Federation have been declined; they have been excluded from the participation in all meetings at the Danube Commission and its working bodies until the restoration of peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, it was questioned whether the Russian Federation, as a country with no bank of the Danube on its territory, can in the future continue to be a contracting state of the Belgrade Convention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 13<sup>th<\/sup> extraordinary session of the DC will take place on the 21<sup>st <\/sup>of March 2022, in order to debate the mandate of the officers of the Secretariat of the Danube Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12<sup>th<\/sup> extraordinary session of the Danube Commission (DC) was held on 17<sup>th <\/sup>of March 2022 under the chairmanship of the President of the Danube Commission, H.E. Mrs. Ambassador Liubov Nepop, at the premises of the Danube Commission in Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}