Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has called on international organizations, world leaders and members of the international community to condemn the violation of Crimean Tatar people's rights by Russian occupying authorities and their ban on the Mejlis in Crimea.

Draft resolution No. 4247 was supported by 233 lawmakers at a meeting on Thursday, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

The resolution asks the international community to condemn the ban on the Mejlis, as well as to support efforts to protect the Crimean Tatars from discrimination and harassment by the Russian Federation. The Verkhovna Rada urges the international community to exert pressure on Russia, which in various ways violates the rights and freedoms of the Crimean Tatars on the peninsula.

At the same time, the Ukrainian parliament calls on the international community to contribute to the restoration of international human rights monitoring missions' work in Crimea.

"The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine calls on the international community to condemn repressive actions by the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea, against human rights and freedoms by prohibiting the Mejlis and recognizing it as an extremist organization. [It urges] solidarity and calls for increasing pressure on Russia in order to restore the jurisdiction of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders," the document said.

What is more, the Ukrainian parliament calls on Russia to immediately stop the policy of human rights violations in Crimea, including against Crimean Tatars as an indigenous people of Ukraine.

Ukrainian lawmakers also drew attention to the need for supporting and safeguarding the Crimean Tatars against illegal actions by the occupying power in Crimea in connection with the recognition of the Mejlis as an extremist organization and its ban, which would translate into the prosecution of members of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people who do not recognize the annexation of Crimea.