Motion text
That this House notes the deportation and ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars carried out between the 18th and 20th of May 1944, in which the Soviet Union forcefully removed over 180,000 Crimean Tatar people from their historic territory to distant areas of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation; honours the memory of those who died during that expulsion, believed to be almost half the entire Tatar population; notes the ban on the return to Crimea lasted until 1989; condemns the current illegal occupation of, and armed aggression against, Crimea by the Russian Federation and the systemic abuse of Tatar rights which has caused many people to flee their homeland; agrees with the joint statement by the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, issued on the 76th anniversary of the Crimean Tatar people deportation, which emphasises the inviolability of sovereignty and territorial integrity and political independence of Ukraine; calls upon the Russian Federation to stop violations of international law and to fully implement UN General Assembly resolutions on the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; further calls on the Russian Federation to end its occupation of Crimea; and calls on the Government to ensure that no matter what attempts undertaken by the Russian Federation to seek to legitimise its occupation of the peninsula, that Crimea is part of Ukraine.
Signatures (8)
The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.
McDonald, Stewart Malcolm
Scottish National Party
Signed on
18 May 2020
Thewliss, Alison
Scottish National Party
Signed on
20 May 2020
Gibson, Patricia
Scottish National Party
Signed on
21 May 2020
Law, Chris
Scottish National Party
Signed on
21 May 2020
Bardell, Hannah
Scottish National Party
Signed on
22 May 2020
Dorans, Allan
Scottish National Party
Signed on
25 May 2020
In addition to the sponsors, the following Members have signed to support the motion.
There are no withdrawn signatures for this motion.