16:40, 13.03.21 Politics 587
The envoy stressed that Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine is not, as Russia claims, an internal Ukrainian conflict.
U.S. welcomes Ukraine s initiative on Crimean Platform / Photo from UNIAN
U.S. Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said the United States welcomes Ukraine s new initiative on the Crimean Platform. The United States welcomes Ukraine s new initiative, the Crimean Platform, as the next step and venue for international partners committed to Ukraine s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It s time to end Russia s occupation of Crimea and its ongoing aggression in eastern Ukraine. We look forward to continuing our work with Ukraine, our allies, our partners to do just that, she said at a UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on the Situation in Crimea on March 12, 2021.
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Russia map with occupied Crimea erased from sculpture in Turkey / Photo from Facebook/Emine Dzheppar
Ukraine s First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Emine Dzhaparova (Dzheppar) has said a map of the Russian Federation with Ukraine s Crimean peninsula seized by Russia in 2014, which was engraved on a sculpture on display at an international art festival in Turkey, has been erased.
The author of the map was a female citizen of the Russian Federation, the official said on Facebook.
Read alsoSlovak PM apologizes for inappropriate joke about Zakarpattia regionHaving learnt about the map, Ukraine s Consul in Antalya Emir Rustamov asked Alanya Mayor Adem Murat Yücel to help with removing the incorrect map.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has said Ukraine continues to consolidate international efforts to achieve the complete de-occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol and to bring Russia to justice for its crimes. On that day in 2014, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People organized a ten-thousand-strong rally in front of the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol in protest against the intentions to tear Crimea away from Ukraine. Since then, February 26 has become for Ukraine a symbol of resistance to the occupation, which has already lasted for seven years, the ministry said in a comment on Resistance to Occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol Day on February 26.
10:40, 26.02.21 Politics 392
The United States looks forward to continuing to work with Ukraine and allies and partners to end Russia s occupation of the Crimean Peninsula and aggression in eastern Ukraine.
REUTERS
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the United States welcomes Ukraine s new initiative on the Crimean Platform. The United States welcomes Ukraine s new initiative, the Crimean Platform, and looks forward to continuing to work with Ukraine and our allies and partners to end Russia s occupation of the Crimean Peninsula and aggression in eastern Ukraine, he said in a statement on February 25, as reported by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.