China assured this Monday, April 24 to respect the “sovereign statehood” countries of the former USSR. This statement comes after the Chinese ambassador to France, questioned about the Ukrainian province of Crimea, annexed since 2014 by Moscow, had denied the sovereignty of former Soviet republics.
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“China respects the sovereign state status of the republics” born after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters. “After the collapse of the Soviet Union, China was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the countries concerned”she clarified.
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As for the Baltic States, they announced on Monday that they would summon Chinese ambassadors to their respective capitals. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will call during the day” Chinese emissaries “to ask for clarification, whether China’s position has changed on independence, and remind them that we are not post-Soviet countries but countries that were illegally occupied by the Soviet Union”declared the head of Lithuanian diplomacy, Gabrielius Landsbergis, on the sidelines of a meeting of European foreign ministers.
According to information from the Monde “, the Quai d’Orsay summoned Lu Shaye this Monday.
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In a press release, the Quai d’Orsay says it has “acknowledged with dismay” of the statements of the Chinese ambassador and made a point of recalling that Ukraine is recognized with “from the borders including Crimea in 1991 by the entire international community, including China, to the fall of the USSR as a new member state of the United Nations”.
Asked about LCI about Crimea, occupied by Moscow since 2014, Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye said that “ Crimea was at the very beginning to Russia » before adding “It was Khrushchev who offered Crimea to Ukraine in the days of the Soviet Union. »
He continued his argument, believing that the countries of the former USSR “do not have effective status in international law because there is no international agreement to concretize their status as a sovereign country”.
