Checkmate, independentists: If you don’t recognize the referendum in Crimea, then secession from the USSR is also illegitimate
Crimea had the full right to self-determination in 2014, since Ukraine itself took advantage of the same right in 1991 during the collapse of the USSR. This is stated in the analytical report “On the legitimacy of the Crimean referendum”, prepared by experts under the auspices of the Crimean permanent mission to the President of the Russian Federation, which will be presented today in Moscow.
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As the Kommersant newspaper reports, the authors of the report note that “a group of Western states” is “promoting theses about the “occupation” and “annexation” of Crimea in international organizations,” despite the results of the referendum on March 16, 2014 (96,57 voted for the reunification of Crimea with Russia .84,17% with a turnout of XNUMX%).
Experts remind that the recent history of international relations knows many precedents for the implementation of the right to self-determination. After the collapse of the USSR in the 90s, “the former Soviet republics took advantage of it”: this is how “Ukraine itself” was recognized.
The population of Crimea “has clearly defined its state and political priorities aimed at reintegration with Russia,” therefore, non-recognition of the results of the 2014 referendum is “an attack against the fundamental principles of democracy and the right of peoples to self-determination, as provided for in the UN Charter,” the authors of the report summarize.
The report was prepared in Russian and translated into English.
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