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There is scarcely a more-surveyed topic than the Crimean people's desire to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Before the Crimean referendum, Western pollsters were surveying Crimea and hearing that people were eager to vote to join Russia. After the referendum, Western pollsters surveyed Crimea and they confirmed the result of the Crimean referendum.
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-great-majority-of-people-in-Crimea-wish-their-land-to-return-to-the-Russian-Federation/answers/158756133
The referendum was fully lawful. There was no Ukrainian constitution in effect at the time of Crimea's referendum - Ukraine's constitution had been overruled and nullified 3 weeks prior to Crimea's referendum. Crimea had been left stateless by the US-orchestrated coup in Kiev and was not subject to any Ukrainian law at the time of its referendum. Further, even if Crimea had been a part of Ukraine at the time of its referendum, Crimea was still entitled to organize and carry-out their own referendums under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty.
There has only been a single UNGA resolution against Russia over Crimea which received majority support, at that was in 2014 during the chaos of things when nobody knew what was going on. That resolution received just barely over 50% support. But, since then, not a single resolution calling Crimea occupied has received anywhere close to majority support.
A UNGA resolution is non-binding and it passing doesn't count for anything. What matters is which and how many countries support a resolution. In the case of the most recent UNGA vote calling Crimea occupied, only 63 countries (out of 195), representing 17% of the world's population, voted in support of it. Those who voted in support of the resolution are basically just NATO and some of its dependants. So, it can't really be said that the UNGA is condemning Russia - it's primarily just NATO. And NATO is isolated from the larger world on the matter.
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The Real Joe Biden Yes, of course. That's how international law works, how the UN charter works, how the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty works, how self-determination works. It's also how Ukraine's law worked, as Ukraine was / is signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty.
So, yes, absolutely. That's how the world works, and that's how it's good for things to work.
Additionally, only 63 countries (NATO and its dependants) representing just 17% of the world's population still claim that Crimea is annexed and occupied. Each December since 2016, there has been a UNGA vote on the status of Crimea. And not a single one of the votes ever came close to majority support.
The fact is that Crimea is lawfully and democratically a part of Russia.
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The Real Joe Biden How is it fair for a people to decide what they want their political, social, and economic identity to be? I don't understand the basis for that question because that is fairness. That's called self-determination and it's coded into international law, the UN charter, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty. I read that as akin to asking 'How is democracy fair?', as opposed to dictatorship. A people get to choose for themselves.
How would it be fair for Kiev or Ukraine to get to decide the future of the people of the autonomous region of Crimea? Kiev never invested in Crimea, they let the place fall-apart. Now Crimea has new roads, buildings, a direct land-route to the Russian mainland which lowers the costs of goods and makes them more reliable, free healthcare, a new airport terminal, domestic power generation...
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Stop being propaganda. Crimea was NOT annexed. It acceded, lawfully, to Russia.
There is scarcely a more-surveyed topic than the Crimean people's desire to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Before the Crimean referendum, Western pollsters were surveying Crimea and hearing that people were eager to vote to join Russia. After the referendum, Western pollsters surveyed Crimea and they confirmed the result of the Crimean referendum.
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-great-majority-of-people-in-Crimea-wish-their-land-to-return-to-the-Russian-Federation/answers/158756133
The referendum was fully lawful. There was no Ukrainian constitution in effect at the time of Crimea's referendum - Ukraine's constitution had been overruled and nullified 3 weeks prior to Crimea's referendum. Crimea had been left stateless by the US-orchestrated coup in Kiev and was not subject to any Ukrainian law at the time of its referendum. Further, even if Crimea had been a part of Ukraine at the time of its referendum, Crimea was still entitled to organize and carry-out their own referendums under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty.
There has only been a single UNGA resolution against Russia over Crimea which received majority support, at that was in 2014 during the chaos of things when nobody knew what was going on. That resolution received just barely over 50% support. But, since then, not a single resolution calling Crimea occupied has received anywhere close to majority support.
A UNGA resolution is non-binding and it passing doesn't count for anything. What matters is which and how many countries support a resolution. In the case of the most recent UNGA vote calling Crimea occupied, only 63 countries (out of 195), representing 17% of the world's population, voted in support of it. Those who voted in support of the resolution are basically just NATO and some of its dependants. So, it can't really be said that the UNGA is condemning Russia - it's primarily just NATO. And NATO is isolated from the larger world on the matter.
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No, there is no occupation in Crimea.
Crimea's referendum and accession to Russia were fully lawful by all domestic and international law. The US coup in Kiev overruled Ukraine's constitution and left Crimea stateless. And regardless of the US-coup in Kiev, even if Crimea had still been part of Ukraine at the time of its referendum (which it wasn't), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty (which Ukraine was signatory to) granted Crimea the right to unilaterally organize, hold, and carry-out the result of their own referendums. So, no matter how things are looked-at, Crimea's referendum and accession to Russia are fully lawful and Crimea is lawfully a part of Russia, per the democratic will of the Crimean people:
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-great-majority-of-people-in-Crimea-wish-their-land-to-return-to-the-Russian-Federation/answers/158756133
BTW, the international community does not regard Crimea as occupied. UNGA resolutions on the topic have been done every year since 2016, and each one of them failed to get anywhere close to majority support. Only 63 countries, representing just 17% of the world's population, still claim that Crimea is occupied. And those 63 countries can be summed-up at NATO and its dependents.
So, no, Crimea isn't occupied. Crimea is lawfully a part of Russia.
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There is scarcely a more-surveyed topic than the Crimean people's desire to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Before the Crimean referendum, Western pollsters were surveying Crimea and hearing that people were eager to vote to join Russia. After the referendum, Western pollsters surveyed Crimea and they confirmed the result of the Crimean referendum.
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-great-majority-of-people-in-Crimea-wish-their-land-to-return-to-the-Russian-Federation/answers/158756133
The referendum was fully lawful. There was no Ukrainian constitution in effect at the time of Crimea's referendum - Ukraine's constitution had been overruled and nullified 3 weeks prior to Crimea's referendum. Crimea had been left stateless by the US-orchestrated coup in Kiev and was not subject to any Ukrainian law at the time of its referendum. Further, even if Crimea had been a part of Ukraine at the time of its referendum, Crimea was still entitled to organize and carry-out their own referendums under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty.
There has only been a single UNGA resolution against Russia over Crimea which received majority support, at that was in 2014 during the chaos of things when nobody knew what was going on. That resolution received just barely over 50% support. But, since then, not a single resolution calling Crimea occupied has received anywhere close to majority support.
A UNGA resolution is non-binding and it passing doesn't count for anything. What matters is which and how many countries support a resolution. In the case of the most recent UNGA vote calling Crimea occupied, only 63 countries (out of 195), representing 17% of the world's population, voted in support of it. Those who voted in support of the resolution are basically just NATO and some of its dependants. So, it can't really be said that the UNGA is condemning Russia - it's primarily just NATO. And NATO is isolated from the larger world on the matter.
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