80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and сommemoration of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people

Written declaration No. 797 | Doc. 15992 | 31 May 2024

Signatories:

Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Mehmet AKALIN, Türkiye, ALDE ; Ms Erten ANISOVA, Bulgaria, ALDE ; Mr Pavlo BAKUNETS, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Mr Lulzim BASHA, Albania, EPP/CD ; Ms Larysa BILOZIR, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Iulian BULAI, Romania, ALDE ; Mr Edmunds CEPURĪTIS, Latvia, SOC ; Ms Béatrice FRESKO-ROLFO, Monaco, ALDE ; Ms Etilda GJONAJ, Albania, SOC ; Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Mr Serhii KALCHENKO, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Ms Zanda KALNIŅA-LUKAŠEVICA, Latvia, EPP/CD ; Mr Yuriy KAMELCHUK, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Olena KHOMENKO, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Ms Iryna KONSTANKEVYCH, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, Estonia, ALDE ; Ms Carmen LEYTE, Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Olena MOSHENETS, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK, Poland, EC/DA ; Mr Dmytro NATALUKHA, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Ms Denisa Elena NEAGU, Romania, ALDE ; Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVA, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Gonzalo ROBLES, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Serhii SOBOLIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Georgios STAMATIS, Greece, EPP/CD ; Mr Pavlo SUSHKO, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Markus WIECHEL, Sweden, EC/DA ; Ms Yelyzaveta YASKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Lesia ZABURANNA, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

This written declaration does not reflect the position of the Assembly; only of those members that have signed it. It will not be considered further by the Assembly.

We, the undersigned, declare the following:

On 18 May 2024, Ukraine commemorates victims of 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Within three days, around 200 000 Crimean Tatars, the entire nation, were deported and at least 46% died on their way to Central Asia and during the first few years of exile.

We remember the victims of this genocide committed 80 years ago and pay due respect to the Crimean Tatars who have endured discrimination in the Russian empire, the USSR, and nowadays – in the Russian Federation since 2014.

We condemn all human rights violations against the Crimean Tatars aimed at depriving them of homeland, committed by both the USSR and the Russian Federation and urge all partners to follow, as well as to recognise the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars as genocide.

We call on the international community to increase diplomatic pressure on the Russian Federation to make it stop grave violations of human rights in Crimea, including persecutions of Crimean Tatars, release all Kremlin prisoners and fulfill obligations as an occupying power in accordance with international law.

Only through Ukraine's victory can the repressions against the indigenous Crimean Tatar people be ended and respect for human rights be restored.