Returning of Crimea should become a national idea and one of the main tasks of the Ukrainian government and the civil society. It is stated in the resolution of the roundtable conference “Anniversary of occupation of Crimea. What has been done?” that took place on March 10, 2015.
“We believe that restoration of the territorial integrity and national unity of Ukraine in the process of building renewed Ukraine should become a national idea and one of the main tasks of the President of Ukraine as the guarantor of territorial integrity of Ukraine and adherence to the Constitution of Ukraine, human and civil rights and freedoms, and also the Parliament and Government of Ukraine with the support and close cooperation with civil society,” the document states.
The resolution contains concrete proposals of public activists and experts working on the issues of de-occupation and reintegration of Crimea and offers, first and foremost, to create a Public Council under the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in order to “solve the most important questions of state level through consultations and coordination with those they directly relate to in the spirit of common democratic practices.”
Adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On strategy of de-occupation and reintegration of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol” and also the Law “On indigenous peoples of Ukraine” is determined as one of the high priority measures that state authorities should make. On the other hand, the society insists on the abolition of the Law “On free economic zone…” and creation of its equal in the Kherson region.
Roundtable participants lay the stress on the need to conduct the investigation and bring to responsibility the persons, who “contributed to the occupation regime” and were involved in “political persecution of the Ukrainian citizens in Crimea.”
It was proposed to create “executive and legislative bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol in exile” as one of the most important practical steps.
