Restoration of the Crimean Tatar autonomy within
Ukraine will help return Crimea and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity,
that’s according to the representatives of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar
civil society and human rights organizations who spoke at an UNIAN press
conference on Tuesday.
"In the matter of
restoration of territorial integrity of Ukraine, we suggest the mechanism be
used of the legal personality of the indigenous people of Crimea - Crimean
Tatars. It is the restoration of legal personality before the law of the
Crimean Tatar people subject to the policy of ethnocide, which will strengthen
international pressure on the Russian Federation to provide for the liberation
of the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea," said Sinaver Kadyrov,
the human rights activist, Crimean Tatar representative of Azatlyk human rights
organization.
He also noted
that despite the statements by the Ukrainian authorities that the Crimea is not
forgotten, "we came to a disappointing conclusion that the state has no
real program for de-occupation of Crimea," said Kadyrov.
A memorandum was presented at
the press conference on the restoration of legal personality before the law of
the Crimean Tatar people. The memorandum was signed by several NGOs, including
Azatlyk, Anti-Corruption Movement led by former SBU security service chief
Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, Peace Council Foundation charitable organization,
Millet, Vetan, Qırım, and individual human rights activists.
"Signing
this memorandum aims at liberating our Homeland from the invaders and restoring
the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as a national-territorial, that is the
Crimean Tatar, Autonomous Republic of Crimea as part of a unified, independent
and democratic Ukraine," reads the memorandum.
An activist of the national
liberation movement Erfan Kudusov noted that the initial establishment of some
state authorities of the Crimean Tatar national-territorial autonomy in
mainland Ukraine would let them be included in international negotiations.
In turn, the
representative of the charitable organization Peace Council Foundation, Yulia
Zaitseva, spoke on the need to amend the Constitution with a special section
securing national-territorial autonomy.
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