Baku – APA. Crimean Tatars will discuss their right to self-determination at the congress, said Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars’ representative body, APA reports quoting Zerkalo nedeli website. (Crimean Tatars Mejlis has been recognized both by Ukrainian Verkovna Rada and Crimean Separatist Parliament as an official self-governing body).
Chubarov noted that they never rejected their right to self-determination: “We’ll soon take a decision how we will realize this. We’ll hold congress soon. Crimean Tatars will remain at their own lands and determine their own fate”.
He said that Crimean Tatars and many Ukrainians living in Crimea boycotted March 16 referendum.