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The third committee of the UN General Assembly approved the resolution "The Regulation in the Field of Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine". This was reported by the UN News Center.

For the approval of the document, 71 delegates voted. 25 opposed, including representatives of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, DPRK, Cuba and Zimbabwe. 77 delegates to vote refrained.

The preamble of the resolution speaks of the condemnation of the "temporary occupation by Russia of part of the territory of Ukraine - the autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol" and confirms non -recognition of the annexation.

The document is condemned "violations, infringement of human rights, discriminatory measures and practice against residents of temporarily occupied Crimea, including Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, from the Russian occupation authorities", as well as "illegal establishment by the Russian Federation of laws, jurisdiction and management in occupied Crimea."

The resolution also contains a condemnation “and the requirement of Russia's compliance with” obligations under international law regarding the respect of the laws in force in the Crimea before the occupation. ” Moscow is called to "completely and immediately implement the Decree of the International Court of April 19, 2017 on temporary measures in the lawsuit of Ukraine against the Russian Federation", including the cancellation of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people.

The Third Committee of the UN is engaged in social and humanitarian topics. On his agenda is dominated by points related to the protection of human rights.

"I welcome the decision of the Third Committee on the Strengthens of the UN of Human Rights in the Crimea, I am grateful to the co -authors of the document and all our allies for the powerful signal of the Russian occupation power about international unity and solidarity in the issue of de -Ukrainian de -capacity. We believe in wide support for the resolution at the level of the General Assembly of the UN and the success of our general efforts to restore the restoration The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, ”Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on his FB page.

On November 1, the draft resolution was introduced to the UN Ukraine . The co -authors of the document were 34 countries. After approval by the committee, the document will be submitted for a general vote in the General Assembly. It should take place in December. "As a rule, at plenary meetings, resolutions adopted in the main committees are approved without significant changes and approximately the same voting results," the UN news center notes.

On December 20 last year, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation with human rights in Crimea . Russia was designated in the text of the document as a "occupying power", and Crimea as a "temporarily occupied" territory. The resolution condemns violations of the rights of "Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups." The document is condemned by "infringement of human rights and discriminatory measures" from the "Russian occupation authorities" on the annexed peninsula.

The resolution proposed by Ukraine was supported by 70 states. Representatives of 26 countries. 77 states under the vote abstained.

On April 19, the UN International Court in The Hague ordered Russia to cancel the ban on the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people and remove other restrictions on the representation of their interests by the Crimean Tatars. This is one of the interim measures taken by the court during the consideration of the claim of Kyiv for Moscow regarding the violation of the Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. Another measure was the imposition of the obligation to restore training in Ukrainian in the annexed Crimea.

“At the moment, the court has come to the conclusion that the Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians in Crimea are in a vulnerable position,” the adoption of such measures in the court decision was explained.