On the 13th of February The permanent Representative of the President Of Ukraine Borys Babin and his First Deputy Izet Gdanov met to hold a working meeting with the representatives of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. During the meeting the parties discussed a range of urgent humanitarian issues related to the temporarily occupied territory Crimea and and military aggression of Russia against Ukraine.
Borys Babin highlighted the law enforcement issues the Mission dealt with: the core problems of providing the administrative services on certification for the citizens of Ukraine, now living in the Crimea; and the specific humanitarian issue about the dead bodies and animals movement across the administrative boundary line.
The reference was made to the practical efforts in ensuring the current humanitarian and administrative needs of political detainees relatives who moving from the occupied peninsula.
The parties discussed the efforts of the Mission in establishing the Administrative Centers in the towns and villages bordering the Crimea to provide a wide spectrum of services in certification of the Ukrainian citizens. It was pointed out the prospects of the opening of such Centers in Novotroitsky, Chaplynsky Districts, the town of Kahovka and so on.
The Mission initiative in modernization of the State Enterprise unit “Document” was discussed. Before April the opportunities of the Enterprise are to be extended in three times. In the context the attention was drawn to “Kalanchak” and “Chongar’ check points equipment; implementation of railway link to the station Vadim and legalization of traffic to the temporarily occupied territory.
The guests were interested in statistics, dynamics and the context of applications addressed to the Mission from the IDPs and inhabitants of Crimea. As Boris babin pointed out that according to the statistics the number of applicants was increasing nowadays. In particular from the beginning of the year internally displaced families applied to the municipal institutions. It was contended the raise of the IDPs number associated with a widespread violations of the temporarily occupied territory.
It was also discussed the risks of the constitutional rights violations and destruction of the cultural heritage sites due to the illegal economic and transport activity on the occupied territory. It was given the examples of Human Right violation during the illegal navigation and seawater around Crimea when ignoring the regulation and standards caused death and injury. It was also pointed out the occupying authorities illegally limited coastal fishing and hindered communities right to development.
It was stated that occupying authorities of Russia Federation restricted not only the individual human rights but collective rights of residents in Crimea and Sevastopol as well as their rights for sustainable development, peace and environmental security.
During the discussion the attention of the UNHR representatives was paid to the necessity to assess the real situation with the violation of human rights of the Crimea Tatars, recognized as indigenous people by both UNO and Ukraine.
The parties agreed to inform periodically the Monitoring Mission about the state of human rights realization of the IDPs and the inhabitants of the Crimea and the human rights violation by the existing regime of the occupying authorities.