The Ukrainian government will continue financing support programs for the Crimean Tatar community and plans to increase funding amounts every year, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
"Every year the government allocates from the budget a significant amount of funds for infrastructure development for the Crimean Tatars, and every year we will increase the funds that will be directed to the improvement of the life of the Crimean Tatars," the head of the Ukrainian government said at a meeting with German reporters in Kyiv on April 11.
Azarov pointed out that over the last few years about 200,000 representatives of this people had settled in Ukraine and currently due to the strengthened support from the side of the state "there is not a single Tatar without a roof over their head."
The premier also said that opportunities are being created in Ukraine for the cultural and ethno- national development of not just Crimean Tatars, but representatives of other national communities as well.
"Our policy is aimed the fact that at each community has the opportunity to develop in line with its historical, cultural, and ethno-national characteristics, and the government has seen not a single sign of there being any infringements of the rights of our national monitories," Azarov said.
