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01
March
2023

Mejlis assesses current situation in occupied Crimea – Chubarov

KYIV. March 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A meeting was held in the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people with Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Dunja Mijatović on the current situation in Crimea, Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov has said.

“During today’s meeting in the Mejlis, which lasted one and a half hours, its participants exchanged assessments of the current situation in the occupied Crimea, discussed the nature of repression and persecution that Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians are being subjected to today in Crimea,” Chubarov said on Facebook.

It is noted that the meeting was also attended by the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, MP Mustafa Dzhemilev, deputy chairman of the Mejlis Ahtem Chiygoz and other members of the Mejlis.

It is reported that the parties paid special attention to issues that are being updated in connection with the expected soon liberation of Crimea from Russian invaders and the reproduction on the peninsula of a single legal, economic, political and cultural space of Ukraine.

“In this regard, it seems important to jointly work out by the state authorities of Ukraine, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people as the highest representative body of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, civil society institutions of common approaches to the cleansing of the territory of Crimea by illegally settling on the peninsula during the Russian occupation in matters of differentiation and individualization of criminal liability in the event that citizens of Ukraine living in the occupied Crimea commit actions that will have signs of collaboration,” the organization said.