Simferopol - Crimea will not return to Ukraine, speaker of the Crimean legislature Volodymyr Konstantynov told reporters on March 11.
“Crimea’s return to Ukraine is ruled out,” he said.
On March 11 Crimean parliament passed independence declaration of peninsula.
A very important document – a declaration of independence – was adopted during the session. This document is needed for the judicial procedures as part of Crimea’s entry into Russia, as well as for the Crimean referendum,” he said.
At a session on Tuesday, Crimean MPs also adopted a number of decisions aimed at supporting the Crimean Tatar people.
“In particular, resolutions were passed in support of the Crimean Tatar language and culture, the development of pre-school, school and university education using the Crimea Tatar language, as well as a number of other incentives,” the spokesman said.
The head of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, addressed the Crimean Parliament’s session today, he added.
The declaration was supported by 78 members of the Crimean Parliament, the legislature said on its Web site
The full version of the document was published on the Web site of the Crimean Parliament.
“We, deputies of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Sevastopol City Council, adopted this joint decision in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Charter and a number of other international documents that reaffirm nations’ right to self-determination, as well as taking account of the UN international court’s resolution on Kosovo, dated July 22, 2010, confirming that unilateral declaration of independence by a part of any state does not violate any norms of international law.”
“1. If a decision on accession to Russia by the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is adopted through the direct expression of the Crimean people’s will at the upcoming referendum on March 16, 2014, following this referendum Crimea will be declared an independent and sovereign state with a republican form of government.
2. The Republic of Crimea will be an independent, secular and multinational state that will pledge to maintain peace, as well as inter-ethnic and inter-faith accord across its territory.
3. The Republic of Crimea, as an independent and sovereign state, should such a result be secured at the referendum, will ask the Russian Federation to accept the Republic of Crimea as a new constituent of the Russian Federation in accordance with an appropriate interstate treaty,” the declaration says.
The declaration was signed by Crimean Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Konstantynov and Sevastopol City Legislature Speaker Yuriy Doinikov.
