Crimea urged Ukraine to stop hysteria over the status of the peninsula
Kiev should end its hysteria around the Russian status of Crimea because this issue has already been resolved definitively. This was stated by the chairman of the State Council for the republic, Vladimir Konstantinov, on September 21.
"It is time for the Kiev regime to stop its hysteria around the Russian status of Crimea. A final point was put in this issue in 2014," Konstantinov told RIA Novosti.
He added that then Crimea decided to return home and forever link its future with the Russian Federation.
Earlier, on September 19, Ukrainian media reported that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski suggested at the YES meeting in Kiev that Crimea be placed under the UN mandate to hold a referendum on its status in 20 years. The next day, on September 20, the minister retracted his words and indicated that they were only a "hypothetical discussion among experts in an unofficial mode."
Commenting on Sikorsky's statement, Yury Shvytkin, deputy chairman of the State Duma's defense committee, stressed in a conversation with Izvestia that the issue of Crimea's belonging has long been closed, and representatives of other states should stop discussing this topic.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, for his part, pointed out that Poland's idea of placing Crimea under the UN mandate is absurd, and the belonging of Russian regions cannot be the subject of discussions.
Crimea became 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 the Russian Federation is finally closed.
