The UN Security Council will hold an informal virtual meeting on Crimea with the participation of Ukraine. Its name sounds like “Crimea: 7 years of violations of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”, reports “Interfax-Ukraine”.
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the meeting is being convened by members of the Security Council: Great Britain, Estonia, Ireland, Norway, USA and France. “Briefings will be delivered by the UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Karis, President of the Potomac Foundation Philip Karber, coordinator of the media initiative for human rights Maria Tomak,” the agency quotes a statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
It is reported that the topics of the meeting will be the militarization of the Crimean region, the Black and Azov Seas, the economic and environmental situation on the peninsula, as well as alleged violations of human rights.
Earlier on March 10, the speaker of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov said that the republic's authorities are going to sue the Ukrainian state because of the ongoing water blockade.
On February 17, the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Republic of Crimea Anton Korinevich said that Kiev was going to finish building a dam at the 107th kilometer of the North Crimean Canal in order to guarantee to cut off the peninsula from water.
The North Crimean Canal running from the Dnieper in the past provided more than 80 percent of Crimea's fresh water needs. After joining it to Russia in 2014, Ukraine closed the channel. Many reservoirs of the peninsula have become shallow; 2020 has become one of the driest in the last 150 years. The deputy of the German Bundestag compared what is happening with the medieval blockade.
