Article 20

In the exercise of the rights and freedoms flowing from the principles enshrined in the present framework Convention, any person belonging to a national minority shall respect the national legislation and the rights of others, in particular those of persons belonging to the majority or to other national minorities.

321. The goals of the Crimean Tatar National Movement is to restore the national and human dignity, inherent natural Rights and Freedoms of the Crimean Tatars on their Motherland.
322. Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people doesn't put forward the task to replace the ethnic dictatorship of the after-deportation Russian-speaking majority by the ethnic domination of the Indigenous People. The present situation in Crimea pre-determines for the future the construction of so kind of the political, legal, cultural and linguistic system in Autonomous Republic of Crimea which should be based on the balance of the interests of different ethnic communities Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
323. The best way from the point of view of Crimean Tatars is the normal legal regulation and establishment of the Rules that would correspond to the interests of Crimean Tatars (and consolidated with them two other small Indigenous communities as Karays and Krimchaks) and to the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian population of Crimea. At the same time it should be in the context of the Constitution and the sovereignty of Ukrainian State.
324. However the lack of readiness of the political leadership of the majority of Crimean population and Ukrainian Government for the recognition of this approach makes Crimean Tatars to use different ways of the defending of their rights including mass protests and civil disobedience.
325. Nevertheless the struggle of Crimean Tatar people for its rights keeps the non-violent, non-partisan and democratic character.



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