Poland proposed to transfer occupied Crimea under the mandate of the United Nations.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski suggested that the Crimea issue would be key during possible negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. The diplomat suggested transferring the peninsula under a UN mandate to prepare for a referendum. He made the corresponding statement at the YES forum in Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
According to him, the peninsula is important for Ukraine “strategically” and for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin – “symbolically”. Warsaw does not see how Kyiv and Moscow “will be able to reach an agreement without demilitarizing Crimea”
Sikorsky emphasized that the solution could be to transfer Crimea to a UN mandate to prepare a “fair referendum.” And the referendum itself could be postponed for 20 years, and before that, check who is a legal resident of Crimea.
We could hand over Crimea to a UN mandate to prepare a fair referendum after checking who the legal residents are and so on… And we could postpone it for 20 years,” he said.
Let us recall that the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, believes that it is easier to return the annexed Crimea by military means than the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine
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