President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed creating a task group for Crimean Tatars’ affairs under the President’s Office that will include representatives of the Crimean Tatar people.
“This task group will make proposals to us, we will share these proposals and move very fast,” the head of state said during a meeting with Crimean Tatars on May 18, according to the president’s press service.
Zelensky said that, according to an agreement with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 500 apartments will be constructed for internally displace persons from Crimea in Kherson region. The president said that there will be no problem with the allocation of land and the construction of apartments. Head of Kherson Regional State Administration Yuriy Husiev is responsible for the fulfillment of relevant order. Zelensky proposed the task group to discuss details regarding the allocation of housing for Crimean Tatars.
In addition, a big mosque will be built in Kyiv. The president emphasized that he is waiting a design of the mosque from Crimean Tatars and is ready to approve it.
A large hub will be also constructed on the administrative border of Kherson region and the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
“The people who temporarily live in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea should see how we treat the Crimean residents, the Crimean Tatars. They should see a really different image, ‘a display window’ of our country when they arrive,” Zelensky said.
The president also said that the task group should consider not only legal but also economic issues of concern for Crimean Tatars.
A leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Jemilev, thanked the head of state for paying tribute to the victims of deportation.
“We are really grateful for the fact that today the 76th anniversary is market at such a level. Installations with the Crimean Tatar flag are on the building of the Cabinet of Ministers and, as I know, another one will be on the building of the Office of the President. We are grateful for your statements, for the order of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. We are glad that the topic of Crimea, the issue of returning it to Ukraine and restoring the territorial integrity of Ukraine will never disappear from the agenda of the leadership of our country,” he said.
Jemilev also expressed support to Zelensky’s initiative to create the task group for Crimean Tatars’ affairs.
