Poroshenko reminds about Crimean repressions at the UN General Assembly

The President of Ukraine promised to protect the rights of the Crimean Tatars, while the President of Estonia urged the international community to stop aggression against Ukraine.

According to Liga.Net Ukrainian media outlet, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, delivering speech at the UN General Assembly, in particular, stressed that Ukraine had adopted the National Human Rights Strategy for the first time over 24 years of independence. According to him, the strategy takes into account the best international practices on human rights, including the EU strategic framework for human rights and democracy.

“Russian aggression has aggravated the problem of human rights in Crimea and some regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The leading international human rights organizations warn the world about the drastic deterioration of observance of human rights, which directly affects the Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea,” the President of Ukraine said.

He recalled the practice of the occupation authorities of Crimea on forced adoption of Russian citizenship, as well as the systematic persecutions, arrests, abductions, murders of the pro-Ukrainian residents of the peninsula and almost complete elimination of independent media.

The President of Ukraine also called for the release of Nadiya Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and all those illegally detained in Russian prisons.

As Ukrinform Ukrainian news agency reports, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, delivering his speech at the UN General Assembly, stressed that the international community must stop the aggression against Ukraine.

“We have not only to bring peace and stability to Syria and Libya, but also to put an end to the aggression against Ukraine,” Thomas Hendrik Ilves said.

The Estonian President also stressed the need to continue requiring compliance with international agreements to continue the dialogue and search for solutions of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The Estonian President also recalled still unresolved conflicts in Georgia, Moldova and Nagorno-Karabakh, and added, “Crimea is illegally occupied. Those responsible for MH17 crash are still at large. The efforts to prevent justice in this matter are deeply disturbing.”