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Photo: Emine Dzhaparova (RBK-Ukraine)
Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova said that Russian media distorted the position of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the responsibility of supplying water to residents of occupied Crimea. We are talking about the “Vedomosti” and “RIA Novosti” editions.
Dzhaparova wrote about this on Facebook.
Today, the aforementioned media reported that the responsibility for supplying drinking water to the residents of Crimea rests both in Russia and Ukraine, which was allegedly stated by the official representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Elizabeth Throssell.
According to Dzhaparova, the Office of the High Commissioner reported that they were actually contacted by the RIA Novosti agency (to whose publication Vedomosti refers) about the issue of water supply to Crimea, to which the media literally received the following response: “The Federation Russia as the occupying power has the primary responsibility to ensure access to water for protected people. “
“As emphasized in OHCHR, the words of his representative in ‘Vedomosti’ were not given in their entirety,” said Dzhaparova.
He added that the position of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this issue is clear and legal: “Russia is an occupying country. Russia bears full responsibility for the situation in Crimea according to international humanitarian law. Russia will be held responsible for its crimes. against Ukraine and the citizens of Ukraine “.
We will recall, previously the UN mentioned widespread violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbass; The organization’s findings are based on an analysis of more than 3,000 court documents.
In addition, in late June, the UN Secretary-General published a report on further violations by Russia in Crimea.
