The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry saw the danger of “balticizing” the Crimean issue in the West. According to the representative of Ukraine in the Council of Europe, Dmitry Kuleba, a number of “foreign partners” are already ready to turn a blind eye to the reunification of Crimea with Russia, without recognizing the Russian status of the peninsula at the official level.
The Ukrainian diplomat wrote about this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“A number of our sincerely friendly partners are now increasingly tempted to treat Crimea according to the Baltic model. A number of Western countries did not recognize the occupation and subsequent annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940. Even after the Second World War it did not recognize it. It turned out that the USSR was generally recognized, but the participation of the three republics in the Union was not. This approach has one fundamental flaw - it does not provide for active measures to counter the occupation. You just sit and do nothing. If the occupation does not stop, then you calmly make friends with the aggressor and remember the bad things at most once a year on the next anniversary of the annexation. If somehow the occupation ends, you're like, “Oh, I never recognized it! We have always been side by side. Freedom cannot be stopped and all that,” Kuleba said.
The representative of Ukrainian diplomacy also called for creating intolerable conditions at the international level for Russian colleagues: “In every country and international organization, the Crimean soil should burn under their feet when they walk along the corridors in Washington, New York, Strasbourg, Berlin, Ankara and others diplomatic centers."