Following consultations with the governments of
Ukraine, as well as the Russian Federation, Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland
announced on 20 January 2016 to the Ministers’ Deputies that he was sending a
Human Rights delegation to Crimea, having taken into account the various calls
from the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly and from individual
member States for the Council of Europe to review the human rights situation in
Crimea.
The delegation’s objective was to assess the Human
Rights and Rule of Law situation of the 2.5 million people who live on the
Peninsula and are covered by the European Convention on Human Rights, as well
as to make relevant recommendations. The delegation was bound by the relevant
decisions of the Committee of Ministers of the Co-relating to Crimea, and was
not to deal with any issue related to the status of Crimea.
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