{"id":87959,"date":"2026-05-14T22:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppu.gov.ua\/?post_type=press-center&#038;p=87959"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:14:46","slug":"the-ukrainian-parliament-adopts-an-appeal-on-the-international-recognition-of-the-crimean-tatar-genocide","status":"publish","type":"press-center","link":"https:\/\/ppu.gov.ua\/en\/press-center\/the-ukrainian-parliament-adopts-an-appeal-on-the-international-recognition-of-the-crimean-tatar-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian Parliament Adopts an Appeal on the International Recognition of the Crimean Tatar Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 14 May, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 15227 regarding an Appeal to the governments and parliaments of foreign states, international organisations, and parliamentary assemblies on recognising the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an act of genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution was adopted ahead of the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document calls on the international community to provide a proper legal and political assessment of the crime committed by the Soviet totalitarian regime against the Crimean Tatar people, to condemn the current policy of the Russian Federation, which continues discrimination, persecution, and repression against Crimean Tatars under the conditions of the temporary occupation of Crimea, and to strengthen sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine became the first state in the world to recognise the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from Crimea in 1944 as an act of genocide at the legislative level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequently, corresponding decisions were adopted by other states, including the parliaments of the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Poland, and the Republic of Estonia, as well as the House of Commons of Canada, the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Senate of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":87778,"template":"","publication-type":[],"class_list":["post-87959","press-center","type-press-center","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ukrainian Parliament Adopts an Appeal on the International Recognition of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ppu.gov.ua\/en\/press-center\/the-ukrainian-parliament-adopts-an-appeal-on-the-international-recognition-of-the-crimean-tatar-genocide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ukrainian Parliament Adopts an Appeal on the International Recognition of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 14 May, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 15227 regarding an Appeal to the governments and parliaments of foreign states, international organisations, and parliamentary assemblies on recognising the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an act of genocide. 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