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Ukraine’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will present the demand for a debate on human rights in occupied Crimea.
This will happen on January 25 at the opening of the first part of the PACE 2021 session. This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation, Maria Mezentseva, in a comment to the UNN.
According to her, this will be Ukraine’s response to the decision made by the PACE Bureau on January 22 not to recommend to the Assembly to hold this current debate on the Russian-occupied peninsula. In addition, the document spoke about the refusal to debate on the topic “Prohibition of Russian and other minority languages in Ukraine.”
“Our goal now is to challenge the decision of the Office, its recommendations and return the issue of Crimea to the current debate,” he said.
Mezentseva clarified that this is a procedural decision and in the absence of appeals from the delegates, it will not require a vote. At the same time, if they favor such a debate, a simple majority of all cast delegates would be required.
“In accordance with the PACE Regulations, at the end of the current debate, the Assembly does not have the right to vote for a document, but the Assembly Table can later propose to transfer this issue to the corresponding committee preparing a report,” he concluded.
As a reminder, on January 14, the European Court of Human Rights declared Ukraine’s complaint against the Russian Federation partially admissible for the violation of human rights in occupied Crimea.
As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, the PACE Office rejected Russia’s proposal to hold a debate on the language law in Ukraine. According to the people’s deputy, Aleksey Goncharenko, the Russian manipulation did not work.
