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Russian propagandists once again misinformed people and said the responsibility for supplying clean water to residents of annexed Crimea allegedly rests with Russia and Ukraine. This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Emine Dzhaparova.
The words of officials of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) that both Ukraine and Russia are responsible for supplying water to the inhabitants of the annexed Crimean peninsula, which were replicated by the Russian media They are taken out of context and do not correspond to reality. On September 7, Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova wrote about this on her Facebook page.
“Another misinformation from Russian propagandists who, as always, take the words of officials from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights out of context,” he said.
He spoke of the “sensation” that the Russians caused in the media.
“This morning, Vedomosti.ru presents another sensation:” The responsibility for supplying safe water to the residents of Crimea rests with Russia and Ukraine, “said Elizabeth Throssell, official representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Knowing the position of the OHCHR on the issue of occupied Crimea, however they decided to verify, “Dzhaparova clarified.
According to Dzhaparova, in OHCHR reported that they were actually contacted by the RIA Novosti agency, whose publication Vedomosti refers to, on the issue of water supply to Crimea, to which they literally received the following response: the Russian Federation, as the occupying power, is primarily responsible for guarantee access to water for people, protected people.
As noted in OHCHR, the words of his representative in “Vedomosti” were not given in their entirety, Dzhaparova said.
“As in a child’s game of” broken phone “, only here the phone is not a bit damaged, but is programmed to be fake from the beginning to the last player, that is, in our case, the information consumer receives distorted news. Some Russian media will shout that “the UN ordered Ukraine to supply water to occupied Crimea” to meet the needs of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and its facilities, “wrote the first deputy minister.
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.
On September 1, the former Crimean “prosecutor”, Russian State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, said that UN structures recognized her status as a Russian deputy from Crimea and offered cooperation to provide additional information on access by the residents of the peninsula to drinking water.
On September 2, OHCHR denied this information.
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