Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke about the continuing human rights violations in the Crimea at a ministerial event within the framework of the High Level Segment of the UN Human Rights Council.
This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports Ukrinform.
“During the seven years of occupation, Crimea has become a territory of disregard for human dignity and gross violations of human rights. Unjustified detentions, illegal arrests, and fabricated accusations have become a sad reality for the inhabitants of the peninsula. The Crimean Tatar people are being persecuted, ”Kuleba declared.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister condemned a new wave of searches of the homes of Crimean residents Abdulbori Mahamadaminov, Azamat Eyupov, Timur Yalkabov, Ernest Ibragimov, Oleg Fedorov, Lenur Seidametov and Yashar Shikhametov.
Kuleba also emphasized that the international response to Russia’s arbitrariness against human rights, in particular, should be the creation of the Crimean Platform. According to him, this platform will keep the issue of the Russian illegal occupation high on the international agenda and ensure the synergy of international efforts to vacate Crimea.
The diplomat highlighted the importance of the practical contribution of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the achievement of the objectives of the Crimean Platform.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, who is on a working visit to Ukraine, spoke with Dmytro Kuleba at the event.
Nariman Dzhelal, Vice President of the Crimean Tatar People’s Mejlis, Luftie Zudieva, a civil journalist, and Olga Skrypnyk, head of the Crimean Human Rights Group, spoke in detail about the situation on the peninsula.
Participants in the event, including the Foreign Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Georgia, the High Representative of the US State Department, the representatives of Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Moldova, condemned the illegal occupation by Russia and the massive violations of human rights in Crimea. They expressed their support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the efforts of our State to recover the temporarily occupied territories.
As reported, on February 23, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey held a ministerial event within the framework of the High Level Segment of the UN Human Rights Council entitled “International response to human rights violations in the temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukraine “.
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