On Wednesday, November 17, the UN General Assembly adopted a draft strengthened resolution on the human rights situation in the occupied Crimea. 64 countries voted for the corresponding decision, 20 voted against it.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the key innovations were the reflection in the title of the resolution of the status of Crimea as a temporarily occupied peninsula, support for cooperation within the Crimean Platform, emphasis on Russia's responsibility for observing the rights of the Crimean Tatars as an indigenous people of Crimea, the demand to cancel sentences passed in absentia against Crimean Tatar people and Crimean Tatars.
In particular, the document requires the Russian Federation to release the illegally detained citizens of Ukraine: Emir-Huseyn Kuku, Halyna Dovhopola, Server Mustafayev, Vladyslav Yosypenko, Nariman Dzhelyal and others.
The resolution also condemns the buildup of the military group in Crimea, as well as the policy of forced change in the demographic composition.