FM Kuleba on Crimea Platform Declaration: It’s strongest document since 2014

“This declaration is the strongest document on Crimea adopted at the international level since 2014. It was supported by all the Crimea Platform summit participating states, all European Union and NATO member states,” Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said at an online briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

The minister stressed that the document remained open for joining and, therefore, the Ministry would work to expand participation in it.

"We will also implement this document, the commitments undertaken in this document, in concrete actions, concrete measures, concrete initiatives. And this is exactly what our work will be focused on now,” the chief Ukrainian diplomat stressed.

According to Kuleba, Ukraine will not stop, the work will last exactly as long as it takes to return the Ukrainian Crimea.

The minister is also convinced that the Crimea Platform broke a tendency to forget about Crimea, on which Russia has spent billions.

As reported, the Crimea Platform summit took place in Kyiv on August 23. Its participants adopted the Joint Declaration reaffirming their support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, condemning the temporary occupation of Crimea, the militarization of the peninsula, human rights violations and restrictions on freedom of navigation in the region, and calling on the Russian Federation to engage constructively in the Platform activities.

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