“We know these violations are felt acutely in the illegally occupied Crimea, where the Crimean Tatar community faces a calculated campaign and persecution. We reiterate our condemnation of the illegitimate plebiscites in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine, and we do not recognise Russia’s unlawfully elected officials nor its territorial claims”, Milton Dick, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament

“We know these violations are felt acutely in the illegally occupied Crimea, where the Crimean Tatar community faces a calculated campaign and persecution. We reiterate our condemnation of the illegitimate plebiscites in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine, and we do not recognise Russia’s unlawfully elected officials nor its territorial claims”, Milton Dick, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament. 

Milton Dick expressed Australia’s unwavering support for Ukraine in defending the global rules-based order and international law principles outlined in the UN Charter. The Speaker highlighted the documentation of Russia’s consistent human rights violations, particularly in temporarily occupied Crimea as well as persecution faced by the Crimean Tatars.

“We know these violations are felt acutely in the illegally occupied Crimea, where the Crimean Tatar community faces a calculated campaign and persecution. We reiterate our condemnation of the illegitimate plebiscites in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine, and we do not recognise Russia’s unlawfully elected officials nor its territorial claims”,  — said Milton Dick, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament.

The Australian speaker called on Russia to immediately completely and unconditionally withdraw its forces from the entire Lugansk and Donetsk regions, Crimean Peninsula and all the territories within Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders.