Item 8 - Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. JST Ukraine. (03.10.2024)

57th session of the Human Rights Council 

Item 8 - Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.

JOINT STATEMENT on the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea 

and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine.

 

02 October 2024

Mr. President,

This statement is delivered on behalf of 49 states.

We recall the provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action on effective international measures to guarantee and monitor the implementation of human rights standards in respect of people under foreign occupation, and effective legal protection against the violation of their human rights.

These principles were reiterated at the fourth summit of the International Crimea Platform held on 11 September 2024 in Kyiv.

We reiterate our support for the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders extending to its territorial waters, which continues to be violated as a result of Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.

We condemn in the strongest terms Russia’s use of the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula for military purposes as well as the means to support the attempted illegal annexation of other Ukrainian regions.

We reiterate our non-recognition of Russia’s illegal attempted annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, as well as some parts of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, which threatens international security with grave implications for the international order based on the rule of law. 

We condemn the holding by Russia in September of so-called "elections" on the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, which include Crimea, in violation of Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. We reiterate that results of the so-called "elections" are null and void, and the so-called "elections" themselves are illegitimate.

We are gravely concerned about the reported continued violations of international humanitarian law and severe violations and abuses of human rights perpetrated against the residents of Crimea, including against persons belonging to the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.

We are equally concerned about the illegal deportation and forcible transfer, as well as indoctrination of Ukrainian children and compelling them to accept Russian citizenship.

We condemn any mobilisation and conscription by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian citizens from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine into Russian armed forces.

We emphasise that the cessation of the Russian Federation`s war of aggression against Ukraine and the reaffirmation of sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders as well as comprehensive, just and lasting peace for Ukraine should be ensured for restoration of respect for the United Nations Charter and rules and principles of international law.

Thank you!

 

Delivered on behalf of:

 

  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • New Zealand
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • San Marino
  • Slovak Republic
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Türkiye
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States