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To: annalex
Legal or illegal, one is still faced with the fact that the vast majority of the people of Crimea do not want to be part of Ukraine. Now, are their views to be completely ignored? One can argue legalities until the end of time, but events march on, and Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine.
79 posted on 03/23/2014 10:59:29 PM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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To: quadrant
Legal or illegal, one is still faced with the fact that the vast majority of the people of Crimea do not want to be part of Ukraine. Now, are their views to be completely ignored?

No, not ignored. First, the unidentified bandits without national insignia that RF put in there need to get the hell out of Crimea; second, RF needs to recognize the Ukrainian government; third, RF should negotiate with Ukraine issues of rights of that minority, and offer potential emigrants a RF citizenship, and finally, the issue of possibly setting up a referendum about Crimean status either within or outside of Ukraine can be discussed diplomatically. Obviously from the Report, the Ukrainian constitution does not provide for secession. Most constitutions don't. Ours, for example, doesn't as well. So it is an internal matter of a sovereign state of Ukraine. Since Ukraine wants to join EU and wants economic and political cooperation with Europe, leverage exists to bring about changes that concern Ukrainian citizens of Russian ethnicity.

96 posted on 03/24/2014 5:32:07 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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