The UN General Assembly voted for the resolution on human rights in Crimea

In the UN General Assembly, 65 countries voted for the updated resolution on the situation with human rights in the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, which is one more than last year, reports ru.krymr.com with reference to the publication "Ukrinform".

At the same time, 25 countries voted against this resolution, 85 abstained.

Apart from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Cambodia, China, Cuba, North Korea, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Serbia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe voted against.

This year, the key innovations in this resolution were the reflection in the name of the status of Crimea as a "temporarily occupied peninsula", support for cooperation in the "Crimean Platform", emphasis on Russia's responsibility for observing the rights of the Crimean Tatars as the indigenous people of Crimea, the demand to cancel sentences handed down in absentia in regarding the leaders of the Crimean Tatar people and the Crimean Tatars.

The document calls on Russia to end the groundless detentions and arrests of Crimean residents, demands the release of illegally detained Ukrainian citizens, in particular, Emir-Usein Kuku, Halyna Dovgopoluya, Server Mustafayev, Vladyslav Esypenko, Nariman Dzhelal and others.

It is emphasized that the expansion of the Russian military group in the annexed Crimea and numerous exercises of the Russian armed forces entail significant long-term negative consequences in the region, in particular, make it difficult to ensure the basic rights of the civilian population.

It also points to the facts of destruction of cultural and natural heritage, illegal archaeological excavations, transfer of cultural values ​​and persecution of religious traditions.

The resolution expressed concern about the militarization and assimilation of young people in Crimea by the Russian Federation, in particular, the military training of children, the introduction of a "military-patriotic" education system.

We remind you that the draft of this resolution was supported by the UN on November 17 of this year.

After that, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the approval by the UN General Assembly committee of the draft resolution on human rights in Crimea and noted that the "Crimean Platform" is also now in the text of the document.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York in September of this year criticized the UN for the fact that the organization ignored the Crimean Platform summit.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine addressed the UN with the same criticism, and the department expressed the hope that the organization would still join the Crimean Platform.