PART 2 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ASPECT OF THE OCCUPATION OF ARC AND THE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL 2.2.4. The Resolution of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the case of constitutional submission of the Acting President of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, regarding the compliance of the Decree of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea ‘On Declaration of Independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol’ to the Ukrainian Constitution30 Case number: No. 1-15/2014. Date and number: 20 March 2014, No. 3-rp/2014. Content: the Decree of the VR of the ARC ‘On Declaration of Independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol’ No. 1727-6/14 dated 11 March 2014 is recognized as violating the Ukrainian Constitution (unconstitutional). The said decree becomes void as of the day the Constitutional Court of Ukraine adopts this Resolution. The resolution is binding in the Ukrainian territory. 2.2.5. The Decree of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ‘On Declaration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Regarding the Guarantees of the Rights of the Crimean Tatar People in the State of Ukraine’31 Date and number: 20 March 2014, No. 1140-VII. Content: The VRU declared that Ukraine guarantees protection and implementa- tion of the inalienable right of the Crimean Tatar people for their personal iden- tity as part of the sovereign and independent Ukrainian state; it recognizes the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the executive body of Kurultai of the Crime- an Tatar people, and Kurultai as the highest representative body of the Crimean Tatar people. The VRU declared its support of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and rebuked all attempts to limit the political and social rights, the civil rights of the citizens of Ukraine of different ethnicity residing in the ARC, including but not limited to the Ukrainians, the Russians, the Crimean Tatars, the Armenians, the Bulgarians, the Greeks, the Germans, the Karaites, the Judeo-Crimean Tatars, observed following the anti-constitutional referendum. 30 http://www.ccu.gov.ua/doccatalog/document?id=244261 31 http://zakon5.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1140-vii 26