However, the resolution adopted by the Mejlis today said the Tatars still do not recognize Russia's annexation of the peninsula.
The resolution said Lenur Islyamov will serve as deputy prime minister in the government, and Zaur Smirnov will be chairman of the Committee on Nationalities and Deported Citizens.
The resolution emphasizes, however, that the Mejlis does not recognize "political, legislative, economic and other changes taking place in Crimea without the consent and approval" of Crimean Tatars.
According to the document, the Mejlis will in two weeks again consider whether to cooperate with the government.
The Mejlis said most Crimean Tatars boycotted the March 16 referendum in which Crimeans were asked whether the territory should join Russia.
2 latest must-have #Ukraine souvenirs: doormat with yanukovych's face and plastic replica of golden loaf of bread found at his mansion
— James Marson (@marson_jr) April 1, 2014
Where Russian poets came to be initiated into poetry, to write, to love, to fight death w/ better climate, and to die http://t.co/169io6Qw70
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) April 1, 2014
Right of states to choose their course is fundamental for Europe & we must stand by it - my op-ed http://t.co/2Ty0LHvhqA #NATO
— AndersFogh Rasmussen (@AndersFoghR) April 1, 2014
Talking to journalists in Kyiv today, Tymoshenko said the proposal will be debated in parliament next week.
According to her, up to 70,000 people may be released on the proposed amnesty.
Tymoshenko stated that "thousands of innocent owners of small and medium-sized businesses have been thrown behind bars" during Viktor Yanukovych's presidency for "their refusal to support then-ruling party," and those people must be released.
Tymoshenko, who was released from prison in late February after President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by violent antigovernment protests, has been nominated by her Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party for the presidency.
The upcoming presidential election is scheduled for May 25.
"@russian_market: G-8 without Russia pic.twitter.com/lAdP6TLAzv"
— Sewe Saldanha (@ClanSewe) April 1, 2014
. @RFERL's Moldovan Service checked w Moldovan authorities and this report is not true. No plans for Putin to come to Moldova.
— Robert Coalson (@CoalsonR) April 1, 2014
According to Dzhemilev, the insufficient pressure on Moscow over the annexation of Crimea might lead to bloodshed on the peninsula and Ukrainians' "rightful" demand to regain the status of a nuclear power.
Dzhemilev, a prominent former Soviet dissident, reiterated that Crimean Tatars see their future with Ukraine only.
The session was organized by Lithuania. Lithuania's deputy UN ambassador, Rita Kazragiene, said the meeting gave members their first opportunity to hear the Crimean Tatars' concerns about media impartiality and minority rights.
Russia boycotted the council session.
would love to have seen pete postlethwaite play Lavrov, philip seymour hoffman as churkin and nigel farage as medvedev @shaunwalker7
— Tom Miles (@tgemiles) April 1, 2014
@shaunwalker7 with Liz Hurley as Tymoshenko and Steven Seagal as Yarosh
— max seddon (@maxseddon) April 1, 2014
@shaunwalker7 @maxseddon I would think Depardieu would be more suited to playing one of the Maidan barricades if he simply lies down!
— Kevin Stewart (@KS66SCO) April 1, 2014
@maxseddon @shaunwalker7 Hilary Swank as Matvienko?
— Oliver Bullough (@OliverBullough) April 1, 2014
@maxseddon @shaunwalker7 Poroshenko played by Robbie Coltrane.
— Alexander Smith (@AlexMurraySmith) April 1, 2014
@AlexMurraySmith @shaunwalker7 @maxseddon Ooh this is fun. Hillary Swank plays plucky Crimean prosecutor fighting rampant "nyash-myash."
— pete_leonard (@pete_leonard) April 1, 2014