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Kyiv regards UN Secretary General's report on situation in Crimea as continuation of international efforts to deoccupy peninsula
KYIV. Sept 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considers the report of the UN Secretary General "Situation on Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, Ukraine", prepared in implementation of the UN General Assembly resolution of the same name, as a continuation of the international community’s efforts to deoccupy reflected in the Declaration of the participants of the Crimean platform.
As said in the comments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the report of the UN Secretary General clearly defines the Russian Federation as an occupying state, and its "bodies" in the territory of Crimea – as the occupying authorities. The Secretary General also confirms numerous cases of torture, including sexual violence, illegal arrests, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, violations of rights for religious freedom, expression, peaceful assembly by the Federal Security Service and other bodies of the Russian occupation administration.
"The Russian Federation continues to grossly violate international law and illegally condemn the citizens of Ukraine, moving illegally detained citizens of Ukraine from the temporarily occupied peninsula to the territory of Russia," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
The report also discusses the ongoing movement of people from Russia to the temporarily occupied territories, gross violations of the language rights of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, conscription of Crimean residents into the Russian army and prosecution of those who evade it, persecution of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, accusations of extremism. followers of peaceful religious movements.
The UN Secretary General called on Russia to stop gross violations of human rights and to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law.
It is also said that the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, in violation of the decision of the UN International Court of Justice, remains banned, and its chairman Refat Chubarov was illegally convicted by the occupation administration.
It is reported that Russia continues to ignore the requirements of UN General Assembly resolution 75/192 and does not provide access to the occupied territory of the peninsula to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, and the media are persecuted for disseminating reports of the UN Secretary General on human rights in the Russian occupation.
"We call on the international community to increase pressure on the occupying state. Mass violations of human rights and freedoms, international law, in particular humanitarian law, will be reflected in the UN General Assembly resolution, which will be introduced to Ukraine with the support of partners at the 76th session of the General Assembly," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said.
