Crimean Tatars will elect a new Kurultai and Mejlis in October 2015

The elections of members of representative bodies of the Crimean Tatar Kurultai and Mejlis expected to take place in October next year, the proper resolution approved on Sunday in Simferopol at the Symposium of the Public Council of the Crimean Tatar people.

The current composition of the Kurultai in the Crimea was elected last year for a period of 5 years, when the Crimea was still the territory of Ukraine, and today is illegitimate, the participants of the conference.

in addition, in their vision, leaders of Mejlis Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov for one month control structure from outside of the Crimea, from the square of Ukraine, and are trying to destabilize the hands of the Crimean Tatars situation in the region.

the conference was attended by about 300 authorized Crimean Tatar organizations from all regions of the Republic. As guests arrived representatives of the diasporas from Turkey and Romania.

the head of the Crimean Tatar organization kyrym birligi " sitomer Nimatullahi sure that the Crimean Tatar people need a new Kurultai (national Congress) and the Majlis (the Executive body), which will represent the desires of the Crimean Tatar people in the Russian Federation and to work within the Russian legal field.

" We will go to Elections for a new Assembly, which must be in October 2015 ", - noticed Nimatullahi.

Elections, according to Him, will take place under the scrutiny of the public and observers, so that no one could doubt their legitimacy." The Majlis and the Council of chiefs, which is, today is illegitimate. The Charter members of the present Assembly are able to be only citizens of Ukraine, for this reason it does not fit into the new legislative field, " said Nimatullahi.

according to Him, the new Assembly will have the authority to represent the Crimean Tatars before the international community as a full nation of one of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Its Commissioners are required to enter in all international organizations - the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, as well as to establish cooperation with the countries of the Turkic and Muslim world.

Preparations for the election of a new Assembly is expected to start after notification of the results of the census of the inhabitants, which is held in the Crimea and will give the opportunity to find out the exact number of Crimean Tatars living in the region.

in early July, the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov when you try to enter the area of the Crimea gave notice of prohibition on entry for a period of 5 years. Such notification is received, the ex-head of Mejlis Mustafa Dzhemilev. Zam. the head of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Ruslan Balbec said that the ban is associated with destructive activities Chubarov and policies of his anti-Russian rhetoric was consciously made this decision.

in March 2014 the Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, and in April the head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin signed a decree on the action for the rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars and other peoples of Crimea, state support for their revival. Currently in the Crimea is home to about 260 thousand Crimean Tatars.


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