UN supported a new tough resolution on Crimea - Foreign Ministry
The UN General Assembly Committee supported the strengthened draft resolution of Ukraine on human rights in the occupied Crimea.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, announced on Twitter.
"I am grateful to the member states that supported the strengthened draft resolution on human rights in Crimea in the UN General Assembly Committee," Kuleba wrote.
Вдячний державам-членам, які підтримали у комітеті ГА ООН проєкт посиленої резолюції щодо прав людини у Криму. Коли Асамблея схвалить її у грудні, це надалі консолідує тиск на РФ, аби держава-окупант дотримувалася міжнародних зобов'язань, зокрема міжнародного гуманітарного права.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) November 18, 2020
He noted that adopting this resolution in December consolidates the world community pressure on Russia in order to force it to comply with international humanitarian law.
The Minister also welcomed the reports of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the human rights situation in the occupied Crimea, exposing the facts of persecution of Ukrainian citizens on the peninsula on national grounds.
"The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and the OSCE SMM should step up monitoring in Crimea to protect those persecuted by the occupying power," Kuleba said.
