This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only those who have signed it.
Since Russia annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian
State as well as international organisations regularly report on
the deterioration of the human rights of the Crimean Tatar people
in the peninsula. Persecutions, disappearances, searches, detentions,
banning of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people and other harmful
actions against them indicate the violation of the United Nations
Racial Discrimination Convention.
Numerous Parliamentary Assembly resolutions calling Russia
to refrain from discrimination against the population of the Crimean
peninsula, to cease political and cultural suppression against the
Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian people, to suspend the decree banning
the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, to take all necessary steps
to halt the disappearance of Crimean Tatars and to promptly investigate
those disappearances that have already occurred are ignored.
Further deterioration on the Peninsula may lead to the erasure
of the distinct cultural identities of the Crimean Tatar people.
The Assembly finds it necessary to draw up a comprehensive
report on the matter and propose recommendations in this regard.
