France is “dismayed” by China’s words questioning the sovereignty of post-Soviet countries

23 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Government of France has been “dismayed” by the recent statements by the Chinese ambassador in Paris, Lu Shaye, who stated on Saturday that the post-Soviet countries do not have “effective status” under International Law, which has unleashed firm criticism from Ukraine and the Baltic states.

A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry has shown his “full solidarity” with “all the allies and partners affected” by Lu’s statements and has stressed that all of them “obtained a long-awaited independence after decades of oppression,” according to has picked up the French television channel LC1.

Likewise, it has affected that the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia in 2014 is “illegal, according to International Law”, after the Chinese ambassador in France did not give a concrete answer when asked if “Crimea forms part of Ukraine”.

For his part, the main adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mikhailo Podoliak, has emphasized in a message on his account on the social network Twitter that “all” the countries that emerged from the disintegration of the Soviet Union “have a clear sovereign status enshrined in international law”. “Except for Russia, which fraudulently assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council”, he has qualified.

“It’s strange to hear an absurd version of ‘Crimean history’ from the representative of a country that is scrupulous about its thousand-year history. If you want to be a major political actor, don’t parrot the propaganda of Crimea.” the Russians”, has settled.