On Tuesday, October 27, representatives of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented the album Hostages of Occupation to the Ambassador of Spain in Ukraine Silvia Josefina Cortés Martín. The interlocutors also discussed the situation in the occupied Crimea and future areas of cooperation.
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The meeting was attended by the Ambassador of Spain to Ukraine Silvia Josefina Cortés Martín, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, member of the Presidium of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariiev, managers of the CTRC Zarema Bariieva and Liudmyla Korotkykh.
Representatives of the CTRC informed Silvia Josefina Cortés Martín about human rights violations in Crimea, population replacement of the peninsula, militarization, disruption of the ecosystem, etc.
During the meeting, Mrs. Ambassador assured her support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and stressed the importance of the Crimean issue. The diplomat believes that it is necessary to increase the awareness of the Spanish population about the situation with human rights violations on the peninsula. In this regard, representatives of the CTRC proposed an initiative to open the exhibition "Hostages of the Occupation" in Spain and to translate the album and exhibition into Spanish. In addition, the parties discussed the possible holding of an event aimed at informing the Spaniards about the situation in the occupied Crimea.
The interlocutors also discussed the possibility of Spanish politicians joining the Atalık (Foster Father) initiative, which provides for political patronage over the political prisoners of Crimea and their families.
Employees of the CTRC turned to the diplomat with a request to assist in communication with the deputies of the Spanish parliament for the adoption of a law analogous to the Magnitsky Act, which provides for the introduction of personal sanctions against persons responsible for human rights violations in the occupied Crimea.
In addition, Silvia Josefina Cortés Martín received a package of documents recognizing the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an act of genocide, which includes:
– appeal of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people to all Parliaments of the UN member states;
– appeal of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center to the Speaker of the Spanish Parliament;
– copies of the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On the recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people”;
– Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On the appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the UN, the European Parliament, PACE, OSCE PA, NATO PA, BSEC PA, governments and parliaments of the countries of the world on respecting the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people and condemnation of violations by the Russian Federation as an aggressor state of the rights and freedoms of the Crimean Tatar people”;
– Statement of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia “In memory of the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people and support for the policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea”;
– Statement of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania “On the recognition of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people by the Soviet Union as an act of genocide”;
– legal qualification of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an international crime against the indigenous people.
Album "Hostages of the Occupation" was developed with the support of the Democracy Assistance Fund of the US Embassy in Ukraine.