Ukraine's Foreign Ministry expressed protest against the decision by the so-called prosecutor of Crimea to suspend the activities of the Mejlis, a representative body of ethnic Crimean Tatars in Crimea.
“This decision has become yet another step in the chain of crimes of the Russian occupying authorities against representatives of the Crimean Tatar people, indigenous people of Crimea. We consider it as a blatant violation of Russia’s commitments as an occupying power under international law, including under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Ukraine calls on all international community to urge the occupying power to immediately halt massive violations of the fundamental rights and freedoms in the peninsula and to provide access to international organizations to the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea for permanent monitoring of the situation in the field of human rights; unite efforts for de-occupation of Crimea,” the ministry said.
