“Paris expresses dismay over Chinese ambassador’s remarks on Crimea and Soviet Union sovereignty”

France displayed its “dismay” on Saturday evening after remarks by the Chinese ambassador to France, who denied the sovereignty of the countries resulting from the Soviet Union and questioned the membership of Crimea in Ukraine.

Questioned Friday evening on LCI, Lu Shaye indeed considered that the countries of the former USSR “do not have the effective status in international law because there is no international agreement to concretize their status of a sovereign country. Regarding Crimea, a Ukrainian territory that Russia has occupied since 2014, he said: “It depends on how you perceive this problem. There is history. Crimea was at the very beginning to Russia. It was Khrushchev who gave Crimea to Ukraine in the days of the Soviet Union. »

The Chinese diplomat called for people to stop “quibbling” over the issue of post-Soviet borders. “Now the most urgent thing is to stop, to achieve the ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, he said.