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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights suggested that the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Natalya Poklonskaya, request the mission to monitor the observance of human rights in Ukraine on the issue of water supply Crimea was not offered cooperation with the UN. This is clear from the statement by the OHCHR press secretary, Rupert Colville.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has denied a statement by the deputy of the Russian State Duma, Natalya Poklonskaya, about cooperation with her on access to water in Crimea. This was announced to Idel.Realii by the OHCHR press secretary, Rupert Colville.
He confirmed that the organization had received a letter from Poklonskaya expressing concern about the shortage on the peninsula. sweet water.
“Due to OHCHR’s lack of access to Crimea, our Director of the Department of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation responded to Ms. Poklonskaya with a request to provide relevant information directly to our mission to monitor the observance of human rights in Ukraine. “Said the spokesman.
OHCHR’s position on the state of Crimea, as defined by UN resolutions, remains unchanged, Colville said.
On September 1, Poklonskaya said that UN structures recognized her status as a Russian deputy from Crimea and offered cooperation to provide additional information on the peninsula’s residents’ access to safe drinking water. Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova called the statement Poklonskaya manipulative.
In May 2014, shortly after Russia’s occupation of the Crimean peninsula, Poklonskaya designated the “prosecutor” of Crimea. In the elections held in the fall of 2016, was elected to the lower house of the Russian parliament on the list of “United Russia”. In 2014, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against Poklonskaya on suspicion of high treason, in April 2016, on suspicion of involvement in the prohibition of the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people.
Ukraine provided through the Northern Crimean Canal up to 85% of Crimea’s freshwater needs. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev interrupted the water supply to the peninsula… According to media reports, no alternative to the Dnieper water supply has yet been found in Crimea, except large-scale pumping of groundwater.
In August 2020, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denis Shmygal allowed the possibility of fresh water supply from the mainland of Ukraine to annexed Crimea, should a humanitarian disaster strike the peninsula.
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