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Canada remains deeply concerned by human rights violations in Crimea under Russian occupation.

“Canada remains deeply concerned by the dire human rights situation on the Crimean peninsula, which is under continued and illegal Russian occupation, as well as by the mistreatment of the Crimean Tatar people and the destruction of their historic sites,” Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland stated.

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