The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Crimean Platform Expert Network held a meeting, during which a memorandum of cooperation was signed. The parties discussed the goals and objectives of joint activities.
The document was signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and seven coordinators of the working groups of the expert network, including the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the Head of the Department of Legaland Foreign Affairs of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariiev.
The memorandum provides for the joint holding of events, conferences, seminars and round tables, support for research projects of independent analytical centers and the further development of the Crimean platform.
Eskender Bariiev signed the document as the coordinator of the working group Restoration of the rights of indigenous peoples as a tool for the de-occupation of Crimea. He noted that the main goal of the working group is to promote the restoration of the rights of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine, in particular, the right to self-determination, territories, lands and resources, the preservation and development of their own political, economic and socio-cultural systems and institutions, the right to observe the principle of free, previous and informed consent, the development of mechanisms and means of preventing human rights violations and bringing the perpetrators to justice, involving the international expert community in the protection and implementation of the rights of the indigenous peoples of Crimea and its de-occupation.
“The occupants at the highest political level react very painfully to the adoption of the law of Ukraine On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine. Putin generally called this law a weapon of mass destruction, and the Russian Foreign Ministry in its correspondence with the subjects of the Normandy format set conditions for the settlement of the conflict in the Donbas, one of which is the abolition of this law. Well, we will develop weapons of mass destruction for Putin's Russia, or rather, restore and implement the rights of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine”,- he stressed.
We remind you that the experts of the CTRC are active participants in two working groups of the expert network Restoration of the rights of indigenous peoples as an instrument for the de-occupation of Crimea, as well as Economy and ecology.