COPENHAGEN, 18 March 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the illegal annexation of Crimea, Ukraine by the Russian Federation:
“Last March, Russia attempted to legitimize its occupation of Crimea and the fabricated ‘referendum’ that followed by supposedly integrating the Ukrainian territory into its own. One year later, the annexation is not one bit less illegal, Russia’s actions are not one bit less reprehensible and the blow to the OSCE’s founding principles is not one bit less intense. While the situation in the east of Ukraine may …read more
Source: OSCE