A French lawmaker stresses the rights of Crimean Tatars
are completely observed.
SIMFEROPOL, July 29. /TASS/. The rights of the Tatar
minority in Crimea are completely observed, French National Assembly member and
co-chairman of the Franco-Russian Dialogue Association Thierry Mariani, who is
leading a delegation of French lawmakers on athree-day visit to Crimea, said on
Friday.
"The rights of Crimean Tatars are completely
observed. I would say they are observed even better that the rights of
Russian-speakers in the Baltic republics. This is how it is," he said
after a meeting with speaker of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.
"The issue of Crimean Tatars have been permanently
sidelined in the past year at European venues," Leonid Slutsky, the
chairman of the committee for the affairs of the commonwealth of Independent
States of the Russian State Duma lower parliament house, who is accompanying
the French delegation, said.
"It is a kind of a ‘rotten apple’ meant to spoil
the real stat of things in Crimea as it fills the European information and
political space with negative vibes," he said.
He said that the French delegation raised the issues of
the Tatar minority with the local authorities and such discussions proved that
"this problem is not a problem at all." "The Crimean Tatars are
not aggrieved, the language is supported," Slutsky said.
Source: ITAR-TASS 30-07-2016
