27/04/2016 President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Pedro Agramunt, made the following statement today:
"I am seriously concerned about the decision to ban the Mejlis of Crimean-Tatar people as an extremist organisation. The Mejlis is an important, representative, social and traditional structure of the Crimean Tatar Community and a ban on its activities on the ground of extremism is an extremely harsh repressive measure targeting the whole Crimean Tatar Community. I urge the authorities to take whatever steps possible to reverse this decision".