Deputy Chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Remzi Ilyas believes that the restoration of the Crimean Tatar peoples’ rights should be at the national level with the support of the international community.
1 October this year, Deputy Chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Remzi Ilyas took part in the panel discussion "European integration of Ukraine: The development of democracy and the rule of law", which was organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation with the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and Integration and Development Informational Research Centre in Simferopil. QHA is reported about it at the deputy’s press office.
Particularly, during discussion Remzi Ilyas stated: "The real motive power of the European integration are not only appeal to the geographical and cultural commonality with the European countries but also, perhaps, first of all, the implementation of the commitments assumed by both before the international partners and before their citizens. A striking example is the problem of rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatar people".
According to a member of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC: “First of all, we are talking about adjustment with national legislation - Laws of Ukraine "Of Immigration", "Of Freedom of Movement and Free Choice of Place of Residence in Ukraine” and several other laws and regulations - in accordance with these international agreements" - he said, stressing that today, the restoration of the Crimean Tatar peoples’ rights should be at the national level with the support of the international community but not at the regional level.
Also on the order of the day, there are, as usual, the adoption of the Law of Ukraine "Of the Restoration of the Rights of Persons Who Were Deported on the Ethnic Origin", and the signing of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as Remzi Ilyas said.
According to him, one more key issue is connected with the status of the Crimean Tatar language. The claimed equality in Crimea of three languages such as: Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar - actually looks like the actual dominance of Russian and legal – Ukrainian language. The procedures of use the Crimean Tatar language in the ARC in the legal framework of Ukraine are not prescribed. There is no governmental programme of development of the Crimean Tatar language, which would allow it to have the positions in society that were lost after the 1944 deportation.
"The problems of the Crimean Tatars, which must be settled at the national and international level, are often entrusted to the local authorities by central authorities. Thereby they disavow. As a result, the problems of the formerly deported people are turned into the object of political discussion, political haggle. And this is too cynical scenario of the restoration of the rights of the Crimean Tatars. There is one of the most terrible tragedies of the XX century and we, as citizens of a civilized nation, expect that the damage caused by this tragedy to the Crimean Tatar people, will be recouped in moral, political and legal, and socio-economically and culturally. But, as we have seen, it is possible only at the national level, with the active support of the international community" - Remzi Ilyas said.
By QHA
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