First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky criticized the statement of his German colleague Christoph Heusgen about the alleged violation of human rights in Crimea.
On the eve of the UN General Assembly, a meeting was held on the situation “in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.” It included Heusgen and Polyansky. The FRG permanent representative expressed concern over the fate of the Crimean Tatars, who, according to him, are being oppressed on the peninsula.
“I ask the representative of Russia why Russia does not provide access to independent missions, observers, so that they check the situation with human rights in Crimea,” RIA Novosti quotes Heusgen as saying.
Polyansky, in response, reproached the German permanent representative for “depicting lamentation”.
“Ask your compatriots, including those from the Bundestag, who regularly visit Crimea. Personally, by the way, both we and the Crimeans invited you to Crimea. Maybe you just overstayed and hint that we buy you a ticket? So tell me bluntly, why darken, ”said the Russian diplomat.
According to him, “it is much easier to spread fables about the horrors in the allegedly occupied Crimea, while finding out the truth and making sure of the falsity of these fabrications is easy.”
He stressed that about a million Ukrainians do this every year, who still rest on the peninsula and leave positive feedback on social networks. Polyansky added that if it is worth “it is justified to talk about any occupation”, it is “about the occupation of a normal Ukraine by Maidan Ukraine, which was an open, friendly country for us with common values and ideals.”
“Maidan madness and geopolitical considerations of our Western colleagues have turned it into the fiefdom of nationalists and anti-Russia,” the deputy representative stressed.
On Tuesday, the head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, Eyvaz Umerov, said that Kiev is trying to present the fight against radical movements as a persecution of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
He advised the Ukrainian side to tell the UN “about the murder of its citizens, open genocide, tough censorship and the closure of TV channels,” including the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, which annually finds itself on the verge of closure for political reasons.
Earlier on the same day, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Serhiy Kislitsa, said that the UN General Assembly “did not and will not accept the Russian mantra that the Crimea issue is closed.” He believes that Moscow is trying to destroy the identity of the Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars on the peninsula by continuing arbitrary arrests.
During the meeting of the UN General Assembly, he called to deprive Russia of the right of veto in the Security Council.
In January, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found a number of Ukraine’s charges against Russia in a Crimea-related complaint unproven. The court confirmed their procedural powers to further consider the case, within the framework of which they will give a legal assessment of Kiev’s claims on the events of 2014-2015 on the peninsula.
Ukraine filed a complaint with the ECHR in March 2014, alleging a large number of human rights violations and crimes in Crimea, accusing Russia of them.
Crimea became part of Russia following the 2014 referendum. 96.77% of the region’s residents and 95.6% of the voters of Sevastopol supported the accession. The procedure was carried out in strict accordance with international law.