Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian MP Refat Chubarov has said that Minsk cannot continue to be the venue for meetings and negotiations on issues related to Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
"The truth is that on the eve of the meeting (November 15, 2016) of the UN [General Assembly] Third Committee, Russia entrusted Belarus the role of a swindler, whose aim was the failure of the consideration of a draft resolution on the human rights situation in Russian-occupied Crimea," he wrote on Facebook.
Chubarov said that the responsibility for this role of Belarus was assigned to the official authorities of the country.
The resolution condemned abuses and discrimination in Crimea, which Russia seized in February 2014. Moscow's annexation was not recognized by the UN, and the resolution calls it a "temporary occupation."
The resolution next month goes for a vote before the full assembly, which is expected to approve it.