Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic
of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine)
A/RES/71/205
(d) To address the issue of impunity and ensure that those found to be
responsible for abuses are held accountable before an independent judiciary;
(e) To create and maintain a safe and enabling environment for journalists
and human rights defenders to perform their work independently and without undue
interference in Crimea;
(f)
To permit the reopening of cultural and religious institutions;
(g) To revoke immediately the decision declaring the Mejlis of the Crimean
Tatar People an extremist organization and banning its activities, and repeal the
decision banning leaders of the Mejlis from entering Crimea;
(h) To cooperate fully and immediately with the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe on the situation of human rights
in Crimea;
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to seek ways and means, including
through consultations with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights and relevant regional organizations, to ensure safe and unfettered access to
Crimea by established regional and international human rights monitoring
mechanisms to enable them to carry out their mandate;
4.
Urges the Russian Federation to ensure the proper and unimpeded access
of international human rights monitoring missions and human rights
non-governmental organizations to Crimea, recognizing that the international
presence in Crimea is of paramount importance in preventing further deterioration
of the situation;
5.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to prepare a dedicated thematic report on the situation of human
rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of
Sevastopol in accordance with the existing mandate and within the existing
resources of the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, which is currently
funded by voluntary contributions;
6.
Decides to continue its consideration of the matter at its seventy-second
session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.
65th plenary meeting
19 December 2016
3/3