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Forced deportation of Ukrainian citizens, who do not have passports of the Russian Federation, continues in the occupied Crimea.

As Vitaliy Khylko, a representative of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said on the air of Dom TV channel, citizens of Ukraine, who do not have passports of the Russian Federation and live in Crimea without a so-called residence permit, are subject to deportation.

Such persons are considered foreigners under the legislation of the Russian Federation.

In 2020, we documented 178 cases when courts in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea delivered judgments obliging this category of people to leave Crimea. In particular, 105 citizens of Ukraine received such a judicial precept, Khylko said.

According to him, 416 people (at least 292 of them are citizens of Ukraine) were ordered to pay a fine for violating the so-called migration rules in force in Russia.

Khylko noted that those are usually ordinary Crimean residents who had lived on the peninsula before and stayed here after 2014.

"The only thing that needs to be clarified is that these people did not receive a Russian passport and do not have a certificate of temporary or permanent residence. Usually, these are persons who do not have a residence permit in Crimea. I underscore usually because there are exceptions. Perhaps, some of them came to Crimea after the occupation to work or visit their relatives, or just use the right to move freely across the territory of Ukraine," added the representative of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.

It is noted that there are two types of deportation forced and voluntary departure. If a "court" orders that a person must leave voluntarily but a person did not leave the occupied territory, he or she is detained again and already faces the forced deportation.

In case of forced deportation, the detainees are placed in detention centers. And these persons will be deported. We document such cases. They are deported either first to the territory of the Russian Federation (usually to Rostov region) and then to the territory of Ukraine through Kharkiv region, or directly through the administrative border with Crimea to the territory of mainland Ukraine, Khylko explained.

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoan welcomed the Chairman of the Verkhova Rada of Ukraine, Dmytro Razumkov, to NATO Headquarters on Monday (22 March 2021). The Deputy Secretary General thanked Ukraine for its continued contributions to NATO missions, including in Kosovo and Afghanistan. He also welcomed that NATO and Ukraine have supported each other throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Deputy Secretary General and the Chairman discussed the security situation in Ukraine and the Black Sea region. Mr. Geoan expressed concern over the erosion of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, and reaffirmed NATOs full support for Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity. He also welcomed the high-level of dialogue and cooperation between NATO and Ukraine on security in the Black Sea region, which remains a priority for the Alliance.

The Deputy Secretary General praised Ukraines efforts to implement wide-ranging reforms, which support its Euro-Atlantic aspirations. He noted that the Verkhovna Rada plays a crucial role in driving these reforms, and encouraged the parliament to support democratic oversight mechanisms.

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Ukraine looks forward to building consensus among the Allies and receiving NATOs Membership Action Plan in the near future.

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Dmytro Razumkov said this at a meeting with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoan at the Alliances Headquarters on March 22.

"The receipt of NATOs Membership Action Plan will be a logical step on this path. We look forward to a consensus among the Allies and the granting of MAP to Ukraine in the near future. For the Verkhovna Rada, strengthening cooperation with NATO is a priority. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Kyiv was postponed. But we are grateful to our partners for agreeing to hold it in May 2022 at the suggestion of Ukraine," Razumkov said.

According to him, reforming Ukraine's military and security sectors in line with NATO standards is a priority for the government. Ukraine has already taken some decisions that bring it closer to Euro-Atlantic integration and continues to move in this direction.

"We appreciate the Alliance's strong position on the annexation of Crimea and aggression in the east of our country, as well as support by NATO member countries for reforms in Ukraine," Razumkov stressed.

As Ukrinform reported, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Dmytro Razumkov is on a working visit to Brussels (the Kingdom of Belgium) and Luxembourg (the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) on March 22-23.

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Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has stated that Ukraine aspires to become a member of the European Union in the next 5 to10 years.

"We aspire to become a EU member in the next 5 to10 years. Of course, this also depends on 27 other countries, not only us. The same concerns NATO. Ukraine aspires to join the North Atlantic Alliance. We are already working very closely with NATO. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's statements that NATO's door remains open for Ukraine strongly testify to this," Shmyhal said in an interview with the Handelsblatt German newspaper.

Shmyhal notes that he does not see any fundamental obstacles. There are two reasons why we are still not in the EU. We are still working to reach the European standards, but we are confident that we will make significant progress, not least through digitalisation. Second, there are countries in the EU that are skeptical about its further enlargement, the Prime Minister stressed.

He is convinced that Ukraine is ready to become a EU member and wants to do so as soon as possible.

As reported, the Ukrainian delegation led by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal made a working visit to Dusseldorf and Berlin (Federal Republic of Germany) on March 18-19, 2021.

During the visit, several working meetings with high-ranking German officials were held.

The Ukrainian delegation also took part in the 4th German-Ukrainian Business Forum.

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Ukraine and Russia both won gold on day four of the World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, as the competition reaches its halfway stage.

Andrii Doroshenko led a Ukrainian one-two in the R1 men's 10-metre air rifle standing SH1, defeating compatriot Yurii Stoiev in the final round with a score of 246.6 to 245.0.

The bronze medal went to Greek shooter Sotirios Galogavros, who held off the United Arab Emirates' Obaid Aldahmani by 0.5 to take the final place on the podium.

In the other competition today, Russia's Roman Ponomarenko won the PT2 mixed trap standing (lower limb) SG-L with a total of 33.

Runner-up and winner of the silver medal was Kuwait's Bader Almunaifi with 22, while Ponomarenko's compatriot Aleksei Pasternak claimed bronze ahead of Kuwaiti Mohammad Almahmeed.

Ukraine still sit top of the medal table, now with three gold medals, three silver medals and a bronze.

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