The Foreign Ministry plans to hold the Crimean Summit in Ukraine in 2021 - Dzhaparova
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine plans to hold the Crimean Summit in Ukraine in 2021, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Emine Dzhaparova informed.
"The goal (of the Crimean platform) is to systematize the existing measures. These are all the resolutions, statements, declarations that we have, that are important for preventing even worse repressions in the occupied Crimea, but also new initiatives, including the Crimean summit which we plan to hold in Ukraine in 2021. We believe that this summit should be permanent. It is an initiative of Ukraine and an invitation from Ukraine. Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on the range of countries that will join this initiative," Dzhaparova said during an online briefing, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
According to her, the invitation to join this platform is open to all those countries that see it as viable.
"We take time to justify this invitation and do not limit ourselves to "those countries should enter, others should not enter." We understand that this invitation is open to all who see the viability of joining this platform. We have no illusions that all countries will join it. But today, in the context of our initiatives and their support, within the UN, in particular, there are already several countries that we can call coalition countries or countries of the Crimean platform," Dzhaparova added.
During the briefing, the Deputy Minister clarified that the Crimean Platform should cover several dimensions, in particular, the highest political level (leaders, heads of state), the level of foreign ministers, defense ministers, the parliamentary level, and the expert level.
"I would like to stress that we have decided that Russia will be invited to take part in the events of the Crimean platform, but given that the uncivilized behavior of Russia is no secret to us, we don't expect it to accept this invitation," said the Deputy Foreign Minister.
Dzhaparova noted that several dates of the summit are being considered. In particular, one of them is February 26, the Day of Crimean Resistance to the Russian Occupation.
She added that she plans to pay a visit to Vienna, during which she will raise the Crimea issue, advocacy of the Crimean platform, and discuss permanent OSCE monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian border.
