Obama promised Dzhemilev to liberate Crimea, “seized by Russia”
Kiev, June 05 (Navigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) - Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev told the Navigator correspondent the details of his meeting with US President Barack Obama in Poland, where the former head of the Mejlis arrived to receive the “Solidarity Prize” in the amount of 1 million euros .
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“There was a banquet at the presentation. Then Barack Obama came to dinner, the dinner lasted quite a long time, and we were sitting just opposite. Then he walked around the table, came up to me and said that he wanted to congratulate me on winning the prize, after which we talked for seven or eight minutes.
I said that we had the impression that Crimea and its liberation were receding into the background, and recalled that at the Geneva meeting they talked about the measures that should be taken against Russia so that terrorists are not sent, how to reduce the potential for confrontation, but there was not a word about Crimea. Doesn’t this mean, I asked, that Crimea could become an object of bargaining, and in exchange for the fact that Russia will not further advance into mainland Ukraine, Crimea will be forgotten?
But he clearly said: “Until at least one meter of captured Russia is liberated, we will not stop our sanctions,” said Mustafa Dzhemilev.
He also said what he would spend part of the prize on – 100 thousand euros to help the families of the “Heavenly Hundred”. Another 700 thousand euros will be allocated to “projects for the development of democracy,” including the creation of information centers and monitoring of human rights violations in Crimea. A special commission will be created for this purpose.
“This will be a fairly expensive project, because you need to have a network of informants throughout Crimea, then websites, then publications. In a word, a very big job. And here I don’t think it’s possible to limit ourselves to one project,” said Mustafa Dzhemilev, clarifying that a specially created commission will deal with projects related to Crimea.
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