China’s Ambassador to France Lou Shaye was summoned to the palace of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Quai d’Orsay after his statements that the Crimea belongs to historical Russia. It has been reported Le Monde.
Discussing the issue of belonging to the Crimea with the presenter of the TV channel LCIThe Chinese diplomat said that the post-Soviet space countries do not have a status in current international law because “there is no agreement to determine their status as sovereign countries” and also referred to Crimea as originally Russian.
“Everything depends on how we perceive this problem. There is a story. The Crimea was originally Russian. This [Никита] Khrushchev offered Crimea to Ukraine during the Soviet era in 1954. <..> We should not focus on such problems. Most important <..> A truce,” Chaie said.
Former Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning statedThat in China they did not question the sovereignty of the former USSR republics after the collapse of the Union.