Ukraine’s resolution on the Crimea to be submitted to the UN General Assembly
Ukraine’s draft resolution on the human rights situation in the Crimea will be submitted to the UN General Assembly. The document was adopted by the third committee of the UN General Assembly on social, humanitarian and cultural issues.
A total of 73 countries voted for the document, 23 voted against it, and 76 abstained from voting. Many European countries, and the US, supported the draft resolution. Russia, China, Kazakhstan, India and Serbia are among those who are against.
The document calls on the UN General Secretary “to seek ways and means” to ensure “safe and unimpeded access to the Crimea for existing regional and international mechanisms to monitor the human rights situation”. It also calls on Russia “to ensure proper and unimpeded access” to the Crimea for international missions for the monitoring of human rights.
The Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human rights of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anatoly Viktorov, referred to the draft resolution as “a useless propaganda leaflet” which “has nothing to do with reality in the Crimea”.