Lavrov was reminded of the UN mission, whose Crimea
The Russian Foreign Ministry told the UN human rights observation mission in Ukraine that Crimea is not part of this country, and therefore the subject of research for the commission, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said this today, commenting on the 20th report of the UN mission for August-November 2017.
“We are forced to remind again that the mandate of the human rights observation mission in Ukraine does not include consideration of the situation in third countries. The Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol are the territory of the Russian Federation and another attempt to include an assessment of the human rights situation in this Russian region in a report on Ukraine is unlawful,” Zakharova said.
The Ukrainian draft resolution on the human rights situation in Crimea was submitted to the UN General Assembly. The document, which presents a number of recommendations to the Russian side, was adopted on November 14 by the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues. 70 countries expressed support for the Ukrainian document, and almost the same number abstained. 25 countries opposed it. It is expected that the draft resolution will be finally considered at the plenary meeting of the current 72nd session of the General Assembly.
Lavrov reminded the UN mission whose Crimea it is.