11 September 2024

The Fourth Crimea Platform Summit: Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia.

“Let me emphasize an important principle and fact: Crimea is Ukraine, not Russia, and this is a powerful political message broadcast by the Crimea Platform.” Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia.

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, emphasized that the creation of the Crimea Platform three years ago played an important role in actualizing the issue of temporarily occupied Crimea.

“The international community must not forget that the occupation began more than ten years ago, and the invasion of 2022 was not the beginning of Russian aggression. Russia’s human rights violations in temporarily occupied Crimea are becoming more widespread; we are witnessing murders, torture, deportations, kidnappings, and violations of international and humanitarian law. We condemn the persecution of the Ukrainian identity and the persecution of the Crimean Tatars in temporarily occupied Crimea. All prisoners must be released, and all those responsible for these crimes must be punished, including the crimes of forced passport nation and the holding of the recent illegal ‘elections,'” Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, mentioned.

He also reminded us that Russia has turned temporarily occupied Crimea into a militarized territory and is using it as a bridgehead for aggression and as a point of control of the Black Sea.

“Ukraine uses its legal right to self-defense to protect its sovereignty and citizens by international law. And this right also applies to temporarily occupied Crimea,” Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, stated.

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