UN Security Council, EP and Council of Europe must respond to Crimea crisis – Mejlis chairman
Chairman of Mejlis of Crimean Tatars Refat Chubarov has said that international society must respond to the situation in Crimea, in particular regarding the Mejlis.
"The decision 'to suspend the activities of Mejlis of Crimean Tatars' passed by Mrs. Poklonskaya [Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya], a person, who illegally fulfill the functions of 'prosecutor' in the period Crimea is temporarily occupied, certainly is initially useless. However, it will be executed by the Russian punitive organs which occupied Crimea," Chubarov wrote on his page in Facebook on Wednesday.
The Mejlis chairman said he was sure that the decision became possible exclusively under the Kremlin's instruction."
"I judge from the thing that president of Ukraine is obliged to immediately address to UN Secretary General, as well as the leadership of the European Parliament and Council of Europe demanding to immediately convene UN Security Council, executive agencies of EU and the Council of Europe with an aim to prevent a threat of a direct reprisal over the indigenous population of Crimea coming from Russia, which occupied the peninsula," Chubarov said.
As reported, prosecutor of the Russia-occupied Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya suspended an activity of Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people.
"Today I took a decision to suspend the activities of the NGO 'Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people' with an aim to not admit a violation of the federal legislation. Mejlis is banned from using all state and municipal media, to carry different public mass events, to use bank deposits and to carry any policy at all. All their propaganda will be banned," reads prosecutor's report posted on her page in Facebook.
She said the decision to suspend the work of Mejlis will be valid until Crimean Supreme Court's ruling to ban this organization's work on the territory of Russian federation in view of its destructive activity, and recognition it as an extremist organization," Poklonskaya said.
The next sitting of the Supreme Court of Crimea to consider Poklonskaya's lawsuit to declare Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people as an extremist organization and to ban its activities in Russia scheduled for April 15.
