Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has approved the provision on the presidential commissioner for the Crimean Tatar people.
In accordance with a decree posted on the website of the head of state on Nov. 3, “the Ukrainian president’s commissioner for the Crimean Tatar people ensures the implementation by the Ukrainian president of powers on ensuring the observance of the constitutional rights of the Crimean Tatar people as an indigenous nation of Ukraine.”
According to the document, the main objectives of the commissioner are monitoring compliance in Ukraine with the constitutional rights of the Crimean Tatar people, submitting proposals to the head of state in the prescribed manner to stop the abuse of such rights and block attempts to restrict them, participation in the drafting of laws and presidential acts on the protection of the rights of the Crimean Tatar people, preserving and developing their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity, as well as participation in the development of proposals to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
On Aug. 20, 2014, the president issued a decree introducing the post of presidential commissioner for the Crimean Tatar people.
Under another decree, Poroshenko appointed to this post former Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, MP Mustafa Jemilev (by consent).
