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Norway delegation found no evidence of human rights violation in Crimea

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Norway delegation found no evidence of human rights violation in Crimea


11.10.2017

SibVoyageGuests from Norway discovered no facts that would prove violation of human rights in Crimea, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Head of Norwegian delegation Hendrik Weber, they wanted to come back to the Crimean peninsula after a while.

The delegation consisted of 11 people among them being politicians, deputies of local parliaments, businessmen and public figures from Norway and Germany. Norwegian parliament did not recommend its citizens to go to Crimea, however it did not prevent a visit of the delegation which is to end tomorrow, 12th of October.

It should be reminded that earlier the United Nations reported frivolous arrests, enforced disappearances, ill treatment, tortures and at least one case of extralegal execution at the peninsula. Authors accused Russia of failure to secure a right of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians for education in their native language.

Weber has mentioned that they tried to find out possible information on accusations and searched for these facts, but did not discover anything, as there are not any violations of human rights here.

He has also added that he is not afraid of imposing sanctions due to their visit to Crimea. The Norwegian politician believes that public diplomacy is much more important and they will continue it. According to him, they should reveal the truth about the real situation in Crimea. He fears that it would be difficult to do in Norway.

They talked to Crimean citizens and met the authorities as well as attended Artek children’s center.

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