Suggestions proposed at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on November 11, 2016

Suggestions of the member  of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people , Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Eskender Bariiev proposed for OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting "National minorities, bridge building and Integration" November 11, 2016. Hofburg, Vienna

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At the international level:

1.To develop an action plan to improve the situation of the Crimean Tatar people in the OSCE region; 

2.Despite the fact that the prohibition of the Mejlis received condemnation in UN acts, the Council of Europe, OSCE and the European Union, adopted in April 2016,  there should be the reaction in the form of political statements and resolutions of international organizations, the European Parliament, national parliaments;

3. To develop a mechanism of institutional forms of cooperation between the European Parliament, "Euronest", the National Parliament and the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people;

4. To introduce  personal sanctions against the Russian Federation Supreme Court judges because they confirmed the decision  of the illegal "Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea" from illegally annexed Crimea, violated Articles 5, 18 and 19 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), grossly violated even internal Russian procedural law;

5. It is important, in official documents and speeches about Crimean Tatars to use exclusively ethnonym "the Crimean Tatar people" or "the Crimean Tatars," but not "Tatars" or "Tatars of Crimea";

6. It is important that in all official EU documents and statements about the Crimean Tatars  to call them " the indigenous people of Crimea," and not "national minority" or "Tatars of Crimea";

7. To recognize the actions of the Russian Federation as an ongoing act of genocide of the Crimean Tatar people of 1783-1944-2014.

At the level of the Ukrainian state:

1. Ukraine should provide assistance in the preparation of the statement (application) of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people to the ECHR;

2. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine  should invite at the state level the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples  to Ukraine, including Crimea;

3. To adopt a law on indigenous peoples of Ukraine urgently, thus adequately enter into the legal field of Ukraine  the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people;

4. To develop a mechanism for institutional representation of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people as a part of Ukrainian representation in the inter-parliamentary cooperation;

5. To legalize constructions of houses of the Crimean Tatars on “squatters”  in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which were built before 2013;

6. To create  the Territory  of Administration of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in  Kherson region, in order to restore all state organs  of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as to provide the conditions of returning of the Crimean Tatars from places of deportation to this territory.

At the level of the Russian Federation and the de facto authorities in Crimea:

1. To cancel the decision of the so called Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea about the recognition of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people an extremist organization and prohibition of its activities in the Russian Federation;

2. To ensure the unimpeded work of human rights defenders and independent journalists during the court proceedings in  Crimea;

3. To stop the persecution of the Crimean Tatar  people and the spread of hate speech;