The delegates of the 1st Congress of the Free Nations League addressed the Riigikogu of sovereign Estonia with gratitude for the Republic’s long-term and systematic support of the related Finno-Ugric peoples of the Russian Federation.
They also called on the Estonian Parliament to take the following steps:
1. Condemn the national policy of the Russian Federation aimed at the assimilation and physical extermination of oppressed indigenous peoples, their involvement in a criminal war of aggression against Ukraine.
2. Condemn the denunciation by the Russian Federation of the Framework Convention of the Council of Europe for the Protection of National Minorities.
3. Recognize the right of oppressed indigenous peoples to self-determination, including the creation of free and independent states.
4. Take into account the positive experience of Ukraine in creating a Temporary Special Commission of the Verkhovna Rada on the preparation of a draft of the basic principles of state policy of Ukraine on interaction with national movements of small and indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.
5. Based on the positive experience of Ukraine, form a similar parliamentary commission of the Riigikogu in order to support the oppressed indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, including related Finno-Ugric peoples, in the struggle for the realization of their collective and individual rights.
6. Coordinate the work of the established commission of the Riigikogu with the existing commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in matters of supporting the oppressed indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, with the aim of achieving sustainable peace in Northern Eurasia and the realization of human rights in the Russian Federation.
7. Use the diplomatic instruments of the Republic of Estonia to attract representatives of the Free Nations League to all kinds of international events where the future of the territories of the modern Russian Federation is discussed.
In its call, the 1st FNL Congress unanimously expressed the will to establish direct contacts with the international community, bypassing the mediation of the imperial center (Russian Federation), and relied on the United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, approved by UN General Assembly Resolution No. 1514 (XV) of December 14, 1960 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, approved by UN General Assembly resolution No. 61/295 of September 13, 2007.