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Doc. 9332
23 January 2002
Repatriation and integration of the Tatars of Crimea
Written Declaration No 328
This written declaration commits only the members who have signed it |
The undersigned, members of the Parliamentary Assembly,
Aware of the work of the Seminar on repatriation and integration of the Tatars of Crimea, held in Yalta on 5-6 October 2001, note with appreciation that the situation of Tatars returnees has improved considerably since the last visit of Lord Ponsonby, in November 1999 (Recommendation 1455 (2000)). In particular, the adoption of a new law on citizenship has enabled returning Tatars to have access to Ukrainian citizenship more easily and extensively.
The undersigned encourage the Ukrainian authorities to continue in this direction, and urge them to address the remaining hurdles to the full integration of the Tatar community, namely to:
1. envisage and introduce appropriate legislative or administrative instruments to ensure the political representation of the Tatar community, including at local and regional level;
2. remove the legal and practical obstacles to the access to land ownership for Crimean Tatar returnees;
3. provide all the Tatar settlements with adequate and basic infrastructure, such as potable water, gas and electricity.
Signed (see overleaf)
Signed : 1
Cilevičs, Latvia, SOC
Agramunt, Spain, EPP/CD
Akhvlediani, Georgia, LDR
Bernik, Slovenia, EPP/CD
Billing, Sweden, EDG
Connor, Ireland, EPP/CD
Díaz de Mera, Spain, EPP/CD
Dmitrijevas, Lithuania, NR
Ehrmann, France, LDR
Einarsson, Sweden, UEL
Grzesik, Poland, EPP/CD
Grzyb, Poland, EPP/CD
Hancock, United Kingdom, LDR
Haupert, Luxembourg, EPP/CD
Hordies, Belgium, NR
Ilaşcu, Romania, EDG
Le Guen, France, SOC
Liapis, Greece, EPP/CD
McCafferty, United Kingdom, SOC
Sağlam, Turkey, EPP/CD
Telek, Turkey, EDG
Tkač, Slovakia, EDG
Torrado, Spain, SOC
Tulaev, Russia, NR
Vermot-Mangold, Switzerland, SOC
Wilkinson, United Kingdom, EDG
Wray, United Kingdom, SOC
Yáñez-Barnuevo, Spain, SOC
De Zulueta, Italy, SOC
Zwerver, Netherlands, SOC
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Total = 30
1 SOC: Socialist Group
EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party
EDG: European Democratic Group
LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers’ Group
UEL: Group of the Unified European Left
NR: not registered in a group