Go to Bratislava media bank. File photoPRAGUE, Sep 3Charge d'Affaires of the Russian Federation in Slovakia Kirill Sapozhenkov was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic on Monday in connection with the holding of referendums on the entry of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into Russia, the Slovak diplomatic department reported on its website. «The Russian diplomat was summoned to the Foreign Ministry Slovakia in order to express to him a strong protest against repeated violations of international law and the UN Charter by the Russian Federation and unconditional condemnation of the illegal and legally invalid annexation by the Russian Federation of parts of Ukrainian territory,» the Slovak Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Slovakia will produce 16 Zuzana self-propelled howitzers for Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic. The West, not recognizing the referenda on joining Russia, is showing double standards, Russia's Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzya pointed out to the UN Security Council, recalling the recognition of Kosovo. There are other examples in history of the recognition by the West of the separation and annexation of territories without the consent of the states to which they belonged. Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836 and then became part of the United States; in 1990 and 1991, Slovenia and Croatia held referendums on independence from Yugoslavia without the consent of its authorities and were recognized; in 1991, referendums on independence from the USSR were held in Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan — against the will of the Soviet leadership and the entire Soviet people, who spoke in an all-Union referendum in favor of preserving the Union; and during the unification of the FRG and the GDR, no one asked the opinion of the population at all — the absorption of East Germany by West took place without a referendum. At the same time, the results of referendums within the Western countries themselves are ignored. In 2017, 90% of the inhabitants of the autonomy voted for the independence of Catalonia from Spain, after which Madrid began large-scale repressions against supporters of independence. At the end of 2017, the inhabitants of the Italian Veneto and Lombardy demanded greater autonomy from Rome in referendums, but the process of granting new powers from the central authorities stalled. Russian Ambassador to Prague summoned to the Czech Foreign Ministry
