SIMFEROPOL, Feb. 23 Head of the Crimean Parliament Committee on Public Diplomacy and Interethnic Relations Yuri Gempel called cynicism of the UN's refusal to recognize the Russian status of the peninsula. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering a question about what is needed to normalize relations between Moscow and Kiev, said: «The first thing everyone needs to do is to recognize the will of the people who live in Sevastopol and Crimea «. The official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, said that the position of the Secretary General of the organization regarding the ownership of Crimea has not changed and is connected with the belief in the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. «Unfortunately, in recent years, the UN has cynically ignored the will of the Crimeans, blindly following US policy and not noticing that Crimea voluntarily returned to its homeland and today has an unprecedented development dynamics, multinational peace and security. All UN resolutions on the non-recognition of Crimea arouse disgust and distrust in the activities of the organization among Crimeans,» Gempel told RIA Novosti. According to him , UN representatives should come to Crimea and personally verify the choice of the Crimeans. «Along with this, the UN is strenuously ignoring the multiple violations of the rights of the Russian-speaking population and the revival of fascism in Ukraine,» Hempel emphasized.
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