Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski retracted his words on Crimea's transfer under the UN mandate
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has retracted his words about the transfer of Crimea under the UN mandate. His statement on September 20 is quoted by Wiadomosci.
Sikorski explained that the words about the transfer of Crimea under the UN mandate were only a "hypothetical discussion among experts in an unofficial mode".
He also emphasized that Poland would defend Ukraine's interests to the end.
On that day, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Poland's idea of transferring Crimea under the UN mandate absurd. He noted that the transfer of Russian regions cannot be the subject of discussions.
The previous day, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski suggested at the YES meeting in Kiev that Crimea should be transferred under the UN mandate in order to hold a referendum on its status in 20 years, the local daily Strana.ua reported.
Commenting on this, the deputy chairman of the State Duma's defense committee, Yuriy Shvytkin, said in a conversation with Izvestiya that the issue of Crimea's belonging has long been closed and it is time for other states to stop discussing this topic.
He also noted that Crimea was, is and will be part of the Russian Federation, which is shown by the votes of its residents.
Crimea became a part of Russia in 2014 after a referendum in which the majority of the peninsula's residents voted in favor of reunification with the Russian Federation. Kiev refuses to recognize the results of the vote and considers Crimea its territory. The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the residents of Crimea democratically voted for reunification in full compliance with international law and that the question of the peninsula's belonging to Russia has been closed definitively.
