On 10 October, the U.S. Institute of Peace held a closed presentation of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s report ‘The Future of Ukraine’s Security Sector’. This document has been prepared for over a year with the involvement of various stakeholders, including the public sector.
As part of the preparation of the report, consultations with representatives of civil society were held in October last year, in which the lawyer of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Liudmyla Korotkikh took part.
Special attention in the report is paid to the issues of deoccupation of the temporarily occupied territories and restoration of the work of law enforcement bodies. During the presentation Liudmyla Korotkikh thanked the authors of the report for the qualitative analysis and for the focus on the problems of the occupied territories. She emphasised the importance of differentiating between the territories occupied before 2022 and those occupied afterwards.
Korotkikh also drew attention to the necessity to take into account recent judgements of international institutions, in particular the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the UN Human Rights Committee. These judgements form the legal framework and define approaches that can help to develop effective deoccupation and reintegration policies.
At the end of the event, Liudmyla Korotkikh handed over the CTRC’s work on Crimea reintegration to US Ambassador William Taylor, who moderated the presentation of the report.