For 4 days ahead the annexation of Crimea Putin called and promised to solve Crimean Tatars’s problems – Dzhemilev

Four days before the «referendum» in Crimea the Russian President Vladimir Putin called and promised to solve all the social problems of the Crimean Tatars. This was announced by the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Affairs of Crimean Tatars, MP, Mustafa Dzhemilev.

«When I talked to Putin on a phone four days before the referendum, he told me as well how he would have made happy the Crimean Tatars and had promised to solve the social problems of the Crimean Tatars for a few months and said that Russia was a great country. It would be doing within a few months more than Ukraine within its 23 years of independence», Dzhemilev said in an interview to «Apostpoph».

«I told him: «Thank you for an offer. Though the Crimean Tatars are in a difficult situation but it is mostly due to the fact that Russia once committed genocide of the Crimean Tatar people and deported the indigenous population. And, of course, Russia is responsible for the situation we are now. And what about the aid you should solve this question not with me but with the Ukrainian authority. We need to come to the negotiating table. Meanwhile to sit at the negotiating table and to have negotiations productive you need immediately to withdraw your troops from our territory», Dzhemilev said.

According to Dzhemilev, Putin «behaved strangely» those days:

«He started telling that thugs, fascists captured the authorities in Kiev ... I do understand you may say such things to your audience but it's just nonsense telling that the bandits came there to a man who had come from that Maidan. Or he says to me: «Here is a risk that a conflict and the bloodshed may arise between the Russian military and the Crimean Tatars, we would like to avoid it». The most interesting thing is that on the same day he said that there were no Russian troops in Crimea», Dzhemilev added.

To remind some facts, Russia occupied Crimea in March, 2014 on the basis of pseudo-referendum which was held at gunpoint of the Russian servicemen.