INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ASPECT OF THE OCCUPATION OF ARC AND THE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL PART 2 the drive for secession and integration into the Russian Federation by the Crimean people was instigated and incited by the Russian authorities under the cover of a military intervention. The referendum that was organized in Crimea on March 16, 2014 is unconstitutional. The outcome of this referendum and the illegal annexa- tion of Crimea by the Russian Federation therefore have no legal eT ect and are not recognized by the Council of Europe. The Assembly calls on Russia immediately to withdraw its troops from the Crimea. 2.1.7. Joint statement in support of Ukraine of the 43 UN member states from diL erent regions of the world, proclaimed at the 22 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Date of proclamation: March 25, 2015. Content: the states expressed grave concern over the fact that the occupation and the unlawful and illegitimate self-proclaimed ‘annexation’ of Crimea by the Russian Federation lead to the deterioration of the human rights situation; the situation requires close attention of the international community. The arrest of one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis A. Chiygoz based on the unfounded charges of organizing mass disorders, a search of the premises of the ATR TV channel, have become another evidence of the intentions of the occupation authorities to contin- ue to oppress the Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians as well as other ethnic and religious minorities in the territory of the peninsula. 2.1.8. Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 2067 23 (2015) Date of adoption: June 25, 2015 Content: The Parliamentary Assembly expresses its grave concern about the grow- ing number of cases of persons missing in war zones in certain parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, as well as in the occupied Crimea. It also calls upon the Russian authorities to conduct an eT ective investigation and prosecution of those responsible for abductions, forced disappearances, torture and politically motivated killings of Ukrainian activists and members of the Crimean Tatar com- munity; to immediately provide access to the occupied Crimea for the international monitoring human rights missions. The term ‘occupied’ was used for the R rst time in respect of the territory of Crimea. The uno7 cial translation of the Resolution into 24 Ukrainian. 22 http://mfa.gov.ua/ua/press-center/comments/3213-komentar-mzs-ukrajini-shhodo-vigoloshennya-v-radi- oon-z-prav-lyudini-spilynoji-zajavi-43-krajin-na-pidtrimku-ukrajini 23 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?R leid=21970&lang=en 24 http://www.eurointegration.com.ua/rus/articles/2015/06/25/7035273/ 23