On Friday, December 17, the UN General Assembly adopted an updated resolution The human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine. 65 countries voted for the corresponding decision, 25 voted against, 85 abstained.
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According to the Ukrinform media agency, among those who voted against, apart from the Russian Federation, were Armenia, Belarus, Cambodia, China, Cuba, North Korea, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, the Philippines, Serbia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
Key provisions of the resolution:
– an appeal to the UN countries for cooperation within the framework of the international Crimean platform.
– the bodies and officials of the Russian Federation operating in the temporarily occupied Crimea are illegitimate and should be called the occupation authorities of the Russian Federation.
– the inadmissibility of politically motivated persecution, torture and arbitrary detention and arrest, extrajudicial killings, abductions, forced disappearances of people.
In addition, the document focuses on the restrictions faced by Ukrainians, including the indigenous people of Crimea – the Crimean Tatars.