Crimea explains Sikorski's idea of transferring the peninsula under the UN mandate
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski's proposal to place Crimea under the UN mandate indicates his intention to establish control over the territory of western Ukraine. This was stated on 21 September by the Crimean post representative to the Russian president and deputy prime minister of the regional government, Georgy Muradov.
According to him, the fate of the peninsula has been decided, discussions on this topic are inadmissible.
"If Crimea returned through a legitimate referendum to its Russian state, and here everything has long been clear, then with regard to the remnants of Ukraine there is a described situation, which, apparently, subconsciously illuminated Sikorsky," Muradov told RIA Novosti.
In addition, the deputy prime minister believes that Sikorsky is trying to return to the times when Western Ukraine was part of Poland.
Earlier, on September 19, Ukrainian media reported that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at the YES meeting in Kiev proposed to put Crimea 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.
