Ukraine introduced a draft resolution on the Crimea to the UN

Ukraine introduced a draft resolution to the UN, condemning a violation of human rights in the annexed Crimea. The document, according to the UN News Center, calls for "taking all necessary measures to immediately put an end to any violations against the inhabitants of Crimea," as well as the requirement to allow the UN observers to the territory of the peninsula.

"2.5 million inhabitants of Crimea suffer from the authoritarian regime, scared and helpless, without any chance of protecting their rights," said the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UN Vladimir Yelchenko, presenting the draft resolution. At the same time, he recalled that the UN mission created in Ukraine in 2014 on observation in the field of human rights was not allowed to work in the Crimea. According to Yelchenko, representatives of 38 delegations performed by the co -authors of the project of the resolution.

The document proposes to condemn "infringement of human rights, discriminatory measures and practice against residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea, including Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, from the Russian occupation authorities."

The project contains a request for the UN General Secretary General to find ways and means, "allowing to ensure safe and unhindered access to the Crimea to existing regional and international mechanisms to observe the regulations in the field of human rights."

The preamble of the project refers to the condemnation of the "temporary occupation by the Russian Federation of part of the territory of Ukraine - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol" and confirms the "non -recognition of its annexation."

As expected, the draft resolution, called "The state with human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and in the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine), will be submitted to the UN General Assembly on November 15.

The UK has already announced their support for the project of the Ukrainian resolution. The head of the British Foreign Ministry Boris Johnson wrote on his Twitter that he had discussed a project with his Ukrainian colleague Pavel Klimkin. Johnson called the situation with human rights in Crimea unacceptable.

The representative of Russia Evgeny Zagainov, in turn, said that "the project is one -sided." "The project completely ignores unilateral consequences for the inhabitants of Crimea from the actions of the Ukrainian authorities," said the Russian delegate. He emphasized that the project is biased and biased, and the Russian delegation will vote against its adoption.