The Czech Senate has unanimously adopted a resolution recognising the deportation of Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide.
This is stated on the official website of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people.
It is noted that 70 votes were cast in favour of the resolution, 0 against, and 0 abstentions.
The Czech Republic became the seventh country to recognise the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in May 1944 as genocide. Prior to that, the parliaments of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Canada and Poland adopted the relevant decisions.
Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilyev also spoke in the Senate.