Dzhemilev and Chubarov discussed with the British Minister of Foreign Affairs Johnson alternative to Minsk about Crimea

In Kiev on Wednesday, March 1, during the visit of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the UK and Poland, Boris Johnson and Witold Waszczykowski, there held a meeting between them and the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, and the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Affairs of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, where they discussed the situation in the occupied Crimea.

«Hour and a half meeting was entirely devoted to the situation in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar people there. We have told in detail the latest events in Crimea and shared our ideas and vision for future development», Chubarov commented it to the website

«15 Minutes».

The government officials and the human rights activists thanked Boris Johnson for the consistent position of the United Kingdom toward Crimea and also discussed necessity to create an international platform where the issues related to the de-occupation of Crimea would be discussed.

«We put the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ attention on the necessity to establish an international platform where the topic of de-occupation of Crimea would be discussed directly. In our opinion, the guarantor countries of the Budapest Memorandum should be at the most priority in a list of countries. There is the United Kingdom and the United States», Chubarov said.

The meeting was also attended by the coordinator of the Crimean human rights group, Olga Skrypnyk, the political analyst, Yulia Tishchenko, and the Crimean Tatar politician, Arsen Zhumadilov.

Later on at a briefing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the foreign ministers of Poland and the United Kingdom stressed out the necessity to increase pressure on Russia in connection with its aggression against Ukraine.

«We may leave the EU but we do not leave Europe. Ukraine may count on the full support of the UK», Boris Johnson said as the Radio Liberty journalist Victoria Zhuhan informed.

Europe may offer Ukraine broader way than Minsk and «Normandy». Boris’s arriving and mine is an example, − Waszczykowski pic.twitter.com/BJI3tKr2YC

− Victoria Zhuhan (@uziaka) March 1, 2017

«Europe may offer Ukraine a broader format than Minsk and «Normandy». Mine and Boris’s (Johnson’s) visit is a good example», − said the head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, in turn, stressed that the government is ready for a new format of negotiations about Crimea and Donbas.

On March 1 there has passed a joint visit to Ukraine of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Great Britain and Poland, Boris Johnson and Witold Waszczykowski.

In agenda there is the issue of peaceful reconciliation the situation in the Donbass region, the situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Crimea and a long process of reform as the EU-Ukraine relations.