Moscow has reacted strongly to a Polish suggestion to position Crimea below UN administration for 20 years. No Russian territory is up for dialogue, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated, in response to the proposal.
“Russian territory and Russian areas can’t be the topic of any discussions or switch to anybody,” Peskov informed reporters on Friday, describing the concept as “absurd.”
The traditionally Russian peninsula was reassigned to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet chief Nikita Khrushchev and was claimed by Kiev after its declaration of independence in 1991.
Polish International Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Thursday floated the notion of creating Crimea a UN mandate territory, describing it as “symbolically necessary for Russia” and “strategically necessary for Ukraine.” Based on Sikorski, the UN mission might put together the territory for a referendum in as much as 20 years, as soon as it determines who could be legally eligible residents.
The Ukrainian International Ministry additionally publicly rejected the proposal, insisting that Ukraine’s territorial integrity “can’t be a topic of dialogue or compromise.”
Residents of Crimea and the town of Sevastopol voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia in March 2014, shortly after the Maidan coup overthrew the Ukrainian authorities in favor of militant nationalists.
Kiev has continued to say Crimea, in addition to the Donetsk and Lugansk Folks’s Republics and the areas of Kherson and Zaporozhye, which joined Russia in September 2023. Moscow has repeatedly stated that none of those territories are up for negotiation.
“Crimeans returned to Russia a decade in the past and haven’t any want for Western meddlers comparable to Sikorski,” Russian lawmaker Leonid Ivlev informed reporters on Friday. The retired Air Drive major-general proposed to place western Poland below a UN mandate as a substitute.
“Crimea is traditionally and rightfully Russian territory, we dwell on our personal land,” Ivlev stated. “The Poles can’t say the identical. Sikorski ought to do not forget that Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg, and the free metropolis of Danzig have been transferred to Poland by Stalin. Perhaps we should always put these former German lands below a UN mandate after which maintain a referendum there,” he recommended.
Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Poland acquired former German territories as much as the Oder-Neisse line as compensation for ceding to the USSR the lands it had seized within the Twenties. These territories turned a part of the present-day Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.
