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China’s ambassador to France says former Soviet countries have ‘no status in international law’
The Kyiv Independent news desk
Sat, April 22, 2023 at 4:27 PM GMT+8·1 min read
In an interview with Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin, Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye said that former Soviet countries “have no effective status in international law.”
“In international law, even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have the effective status because there is no international agreement to materialize their status of a sovereign country,” he said.
“He denies the very existence of countries like Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc.,” Antoine Bondaz, a China expert at the Paris-based think-tank Foundation for Strategic Research, wrote on Twitter.
Also, when asked whether he thinks Crimea belongs to Ukraine, the ambassador said, “it depends on how you perceive the problem,” adding that “it’s not that simple.” He also said Crimea was “Russian at the beginning,” without specifying what he meant by beginning.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the issue.
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CCP Continues To Burn Bridges. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have demanded answers from Beijing, after a senior Chinese diplomat questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet states.
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The Chinese ambassador to France openly questioned the sovereignty of Ukraine and other states that became independent after the collapse of the USSR.
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Chinese Ambassador to France Liu Chai: Crimea is originally part of Russia, and it was Khrushchev who offered Crimea to Ukraine during the Soviet era.
The countries of the former Soviet Union do not have an effective place in international law because there is no international agreement that would embody its status as a sovereign state.
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Ukrainian ambassador to France outraged by Chinese ambassador’s comment on former Soviet countries. Vadym Omelchenko called out the Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye’s statement denying sovereignty to post-Soviet countries, including Ukraine.
Omelchenko wrote on Twitter on April 22 that there were “obvious problems with geography” and that Shaye’s statement contradicted China’s official position.
Estonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned China’s ambassador to Estonia to clarify the country’s position over Estonia’s sovereignty, calling Shaye’s position “incomprehensible.”
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So not only does the Chinese ambassador to France consider that the countries of the former USSR aren’t internationally recognized, but he also embraces a total denial of the 20 million victims of the Chinese Maoist regime. These two revisionisms go as often hand in hand. #Laogai
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