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The UN General Assembly passed a resolution on human rights in Russian-occupied Crimea. The document was supported by 64 countries, 23 against.
The UN General Assembly, at a meeting on December 16, adopted an updated resolution on the human rights situation in Russian-occupied Crimea. This was reported by Ukrinform.
The General Assembly condemned the violation of human rights in Crimea. The document was supported by 64 UN members, 23 countries, including the Russian Federation, spoke out, 86 countries abstained.
Voting results. Фото: UKR Mission to the UN / Tiwtter
The resolution notes that the Russian Federation continues to discriminate against the inhabitants of the peninsula: Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups.
The resolution emphasized that Russian citizenship is being imposed on Crimean residents, illegal election campaigns are taking place on the peninsula, the demographic composition of the population is being changed, and national identity is being suppressed.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba grateful on Twitter from Ukrainian partners for support.
“I sincerely thank all partners for their strong support for the expanded UN General Assembly resolution on human rights in Crimea. Another approval is further proof that the world stands in solidarity with Ukraine by failing to recognize Russia’s attempt to annex Crimea, “said the foreign minister.
According to him, the resolution calls on UN member states to increase pressure on Russia within the framework of international structures to force it to comply with its obligations under international law: to provide access to Crimea for international follow-up missions.
I sincerely thank Ukraine’s partners for supporting this year’s enhanced resolution of the UN General Assembly on the human rights situation in Crimea. Its adoption shows once again that the world stands in solidarity with Ukraine in not recognizing Russia’s attempt to annex Crimea 1/2
– Dmytro Kuleba (myDmytroKuleba) December 16, 2020
Serhiy Kislitsa, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, told Voice of America that the purpose of the resolution is to improve the situation in Crimea. This year, Ukrainian diplomats decided to focus their efforts on systematizing the question of monitoring the situation of human rights violations in the peninsula.
The adopted document states that the mandate of the OSCE special monitoring mission extends to Crimea. According to Kislitsa, this is important, since in the future it will allow to monitor the situation in Crimea not as in a part of Russia, as Moscow insists, but as in the occupied territory of Ukraine.
This is the fifth UN General Assembly resolution related to human rights issues in Crimea, and the ninth in the context of the international response to Russia’s occupation of the Ukraine peninsula, Voice of America noted.
Russia occupied Crimea after an illegal referendum on March 16, 2014. Ukraine and most countries in the world do not recognize the peninsula’s accession to the Russian Federation. At the moment, there is a checkpoint regime between mainland Ukraine and Crimea, and Kiev does not de facto control the peninsula.
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