PRAGUE, September 30 – Novosti. Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova, Parliament Speaker Boris Koller and Prime Minister Eduard Heger issued a joint statement on Friday condemning the annexation of four Ukrainian regions to Russia, Teraz reported online , citing the Office of the President of the Republic.
“We categorically condemn the desire of the Russian Federation to illegally annex parts of Ukrainian territory. These areas were forcibly taken from Ukraine through military aggression by the Russian Federation, which thereby grossly violated the UN Charter , all the basic principles of international law and caused enormous human and material damage,” the statement says. statement.
Organized referenda, according to the authors of the statement, are illegitimate and cannot be recognized.
The document emphasizes that Slovakia recognizes Ukraine as an independent and sovereign state, “which is a candidate for EU membership and whose territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders is not in doubt.”
The West, not recognizing the referenda on joining Russia, is showing double standards, Russia’s permanent representative Vasily Nebenzya pointed out to the UN Security Council , recalling the recognition of Kosovo . There are other examples in history of the recognition by the West of the separation and annexation of territories without the consent of the states to which they belonged. Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836 and then became part of the United States ; in 1990 and 1991, Slovenia and Croatia held referendums on independence from Yugoslavia without the consent of its authorities and were recognized; in 1991 referendums on independence from the USSRwere held in Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan – against the will of the Soviet leadership and the entire Soviet people, who spoke in an all-Union referendum in favor of preserving the Union; and during the unification of the FRG and the GDR, no one asked the opinion of the population at all – the absorption of East Germany by West took place without a referendum.
At the same time, the results of referendums within the Western countries themselves are ignored. In 2017, 90% of the inhabitants of the autonomy voted for the independence of Catalonia from Spain , after which Madrid began large-scale repressions against supporters of independence. At the end of 2017, the inhabitants of the Italian Veneto and Lombardy demanded more autonomy from Rome in referenda , but the process of granting new powers from the central authorities stalled.
