Crimean news 92.
(Mass Media review for January 8-13, 2001).
Articles are abridged.
Development of our nation depends
on every representative.
Confrontation: why? And who needs
it?
Nation is not for state, but state
is for nation.
Council of Ministers of Crimea
works on fulfilling president's errands.
Tension in Kapsikhor* increases
First sitting of Central electoral
commission* was held.
Politics.
Development of our nation depends on every
representative.
4th session of Kurultay III of Crimean Tatar
people took place in Simferopol on January 5-6. Resolutions and decisions
related to the Crimean Tatars' problems were passed on it. They also passed
Regulations related to the delegate’s election to Kurultay IV.
In connection with Regulations passed on
Kurultay III, the number of Crimean Tatar people's Kurultay delegates will
reach 250, and 20% of them will be representatives from non-governmental
organizations. They also asserted that the first session of Kurultay IV would
be held in the middle of summer, 2001.
"Kyrym" ("The Crimea"), #3 (609), 10 January, p.1.
Confrontation: why? And who needs it?
On January 5-6, 4th session of Kurultay III of
Crimean Tatar people -national session of the Crimean Tatars - was held in the
Crimean Tatar musical-dramatic theatre. Mejlis chairman, Mustafa Dzhemilev and
chairman of Kurultay Revision commission, Ayder Mustafayev delivered their
reports at the session. 170 delegates from different regions of Crimean and
CIS* came to the session.
It was devoted to analyzing of the Crimean
Tatars' returning problems and barriers negatively influencing this process.
Delegates made rather strict evaluations on some issues. In particular, one of
adopted resolutions says that if people don't understand constructive moves of
Crimean Tatar national movement on regulating situation in Crimea by means of
restoring norms and principals of Ukrainian Constitution, the Crimean Tatars
will start preparations for all-Crimea campaign of civil protest. It will be
aimed at paralyzing anti-constitutional actions of both Crimean officials and
state organs in Crimea.
Mustafa Dzhemilev tried to explain this Crimean
Tatars' stand emphasizing that Ukraine has started paying more attention to
their problems lately.
However, there is much of misunderstanding
because there are no national movement representatives in Crimean parliament.
He believes that it is necessary to introduce corresponding changes into
Crimean Constitution and law about parliament election in order to come up with
this problem. However, it is impossible. And the main barrier for restoring Crimean
Tatars' legal rights is "chauvinist and pro-communistic majority of
Crimean parliament headed by speaker-communist, Leonid Grach".
He is also concerned that Ukrainian parliament
is not very interested in adopting a very necessary "Law about status of
Crimean Tatar people". What is it supposed to be? Is it misunderstanding
or unwillingness of elected national representatives? The same thing happened
about the "Law about rehabilitation and providing rights for national
minorities that endured deportation from the territory of Ukraine".
Land issue is another great problem for the
Crimean Tatars. Council of Ministers passed several decisions and resolutions
on it. But it is impossible to do without adopting corresponding legal acts.
Mejlis suggests that registration and distributing of state certificates for
land ownership are temporarily stopped in Crimea. It also suggests conducting registration
of divided lands and adopts a separate legal document, which would allow including
deportees to the lists for getting an average-size land plot.
The Crimean Tatars intend to fight for
restoring norms and principals of Constitution of Ukraine. Everyone seems to
support the idea, but… why do the parliaments of Ukraine and Crimea delay with
adopting necessary legal acts? Perhaps they don't want the Crimean Tatars to
integrate into the Ukrainian society or underestimate the role of Crimean Tatar
factor? What powers want some new political and social tension in Crimea as a
result of it? Who will benefit from Crimean Tatars' organizing various protest
actions?
Victor, "Krymskaya gazeta" ("The Crimean
newspaper"), #4 (16105), January 10, 2001, p.1.
Our information: CIS stands for the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Nation is not for state, but state is for
nation.
Public-political action supporting Constitution
of Ukraine took place on Simferopol Central Square on January 10. Several
political parties and non-governmental organizations organized the action. More
than 6 thousand people participated in it. The rally participants introduced
several demands concerning stabilization of socio-economic situation in the
country. And this demands union of all power branches for organized and
coordinated activity. Otherwise, they believe it is impossible to avoid
Ukraine's involving into the fighting of political confrontations.
M.Mavke, "Yany dunya" ("The new world"), #4 (5550,
January 13, 2001, p.1.
Council of Ministers of Crimea works on
fulfilling president's errands.
PM of Crimea, Sergey Kunitsyn held a working
sitting with the members of President's Council of Crimean Tatars. It was
devoted to discussing how president and prime minister's errands concerning
repatriates' housing are fulfilled.
According to the ministries' data, most errands
are now in the process of fulfillment.
When touching upon the issue of distributing
land among the Crimean Tatars president gave commission to the chairman of
Republican committee on land resources to specifically consider this issue in
every region and if in some regions it is impossible to resolve confrontation
he gave commission to sign a joint conciliatory minutes with local Council of
representatives. Interdepartmental commission, which is to begin its work since
January, will be helpful in resolving conflict situations.
Press-service of
Crimean Council of Ministers, "Krymskoye vremya" ("The Crimean
Times"), #7 (1119), January 12, 2001, p.3.
Deputy of chairman of Republican committee on
land resources of Crimea, Vladimir Dmitrusenko explained the committee's activity
on addressing the issue of distributing land among the Crimean Tatars.
According to his words, the resources of
Reserve land fund of Crimea for the beginning of 2001 equaled 190 thousand
hectares and no more than 93 hectares of them are arable. Taking into
consideration the fact that more than 50 thousand of Crimean Tatars living in
the rural zone want to get a medium-size land plot (it equals 5 hectares), this
amount of land is not enough for solving this problem.
Within the frameworks of current legislation,
when some 98% of land are already owned it is impossible to give land to the
Crimean Tatars having no land certificate.
Crimean
Informational Agency, "Krymskaya gazeta" ("The Crimean
newspaper"), January 12, 2001, p.1.
Tension in Kapsikhor* increases
But they managed to find a way out.
As it was earlier informed, on October 25, 2000
local Orthodox Christians erected a 9-meter cross on mount Kamatra, village
Kapsikhor. But local Moslems dismantled it in 2-hour time. This is leading to
increasing of tension between parties. Developments about the cross erecting got worse on January 4.
After an attempt to erect a cross on mount
Kamatra, village Orthodox community decided to erect it on a mount by cemetery.
However, Moslem community tried to stop it, as earlier its representatives
suggested making the cross-shorter by some 2-3 meters and paints it from black
to white. Village Moslem community also suggested erecting its religious sign
in case the cross is erected. Furthermore, they believe that it is necessary to
open a museum and erect a monument devoted to the victims of deportation.
The deputy of town administration head, Shevket
Asanov told the followings:
"Despite the recently reached agreement,
village Orthodox community representatives have decided to persuade their
compatriots to erect the cross on a more celebrated place by making it longer.
More than 1000 people from both sides have made their addresses. The situation
got extremely worse because some of Orthodox community representatives were
armed. However, they managed to keep the situation under control and make a
decision favorable for both sides. These events were considered at the sitting
of Council of Ministers of Crimea. They decided to fulfill demands of both
sides".
Thus, they managed to reach an agreement, and
Orthodox community erected a cross on the mount by cemetery making it shorter
from 9 meters to 6.5. Moslem community representatives were allowed to erect
their religious sign anywhere in the village.
Ismail Ablyakimov, "Kyrym", #4 (610),
January 12, 2001, p.1.
Our information:* Kapsikhor is an old Crimean Tatar name for
village Morskoye of Sudak district, Crimea. See "Crimean news82, 85,
86" about this confrontation between Orthodox and Moslem communities on
erecting crosses.
News
from Mejlis.
First sitting of Central
electoral commission* was held.
They discussed organizational issues. Sinaver
Kadirov was elected the chairman of electoral commission by a secret ballot.
Shevket Kaybullayev was elected his deputy and Kurtegen Nazarov - secretary.
They also considered the projects of
propositions related to developing documents necessary for the work of this
commission.
"Kyrym" ("The Crimea"), #4
(610), January 12, 2001, p.1.
Our information: *Central electoral commission was created on
the last fourth session of Kurultay III. It has already started its
preparations for electing delegates to Kurultay IV.