The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko explained his proposal to the Cabinet to take measures to the termination of the cargo message with the Crimea " to protect the interests of the Crimean Tatars ".
"The situation in Crimea We are very concerned about this because hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, among them Crimean Tatar origin, are brutal pressure from the Russian authorities ", ? quoted Poroshenko on the Internet office of the Ukrainian President.
"We are not satisfied with the current status quo, when the occupying power ignores the basic rights of the Crimean Tatar people. The consequence of this irresponsible behavior we have seen significant escalation between community activists and the occupation authorities of the Crimea", - has told Poroshenko." According to Poroshenko, it is because of this situation on the Peninsula He was sent to the Cabinet a letter in which he made the initiative to urgently set up a working group for comprehensive analysis of the issue of the freight transport stop message and trade with Crimea and to prepare a draft of the relevant decision, and to take a decision on the suspension of road and rail cargo of the message. The head also believes that the issue of electricity supply shall be solved by the working group in combination with the above mentioned problems ", - has declared in a press-service of the Ukrainian President. On the first day of the week the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appealed to the government with initiative to explore the issue of freight transport stop message and trade with Crimea. Then the government of Ukraine introduced a temporary ban on the movement of cargo flows in the Crimea. The head of Ukrainian government Arseniy Yatsenyuk called for an extraordinary meeting of the government, which considered issues of energy supply, and the supply of food to the Crimea. He asked in persistent form to prosecute the persons that signed a contract for production and delivery of electric power from Ukraine in Crimea. The Ukrainian Prime Minister said that he would appeal to the President Petro Poroshenko with the petition the decision of the NSDC of Ukraine to figure out the format of relations with the Crimea, including economic. Remember also, in the night of Sunday before the damaged supports of power transmission line were blown up again. Crimea was left without electricity. Later power supply was not fully restored in the Republic introduced a state of emergency, the algorithm of power supply of the Peninsula ? enter schedule an emergency outages.

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