Ukrainian MFA Hits Back at Mélenchon over Donbas Referendum
Ukraine said occupation referendums are annexation tools after Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged consulting Donbas residents on their future.
- On Monday, Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi rejected Jean-Luc Mélenchon's proposal to consult Donbas residents on their future, characterizing such 'referendums' under occupation as a tool of annexation.
- During a campaign rally in Le Bourget on Saturday, Mélenchon stated that peace resolutions cannot involve territorial concessions without consulting local populations, refusing to allow European leaders to dictate Ukraine discussions.
- Referencing the 1991 referendum, Tykhyi noted that over 90 per cent of voters supported independence, including 83 per cent in the Donbas, thereby settling the question of borders.
- On Sunday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot criticized Mélenchon, describing him as a 'mouthpiece of the Kremlin' attempting to convince heads of state that the war of aggression is a liberation effort.
- As France, Germany, and the UK prepare for US-mediated Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, this dispute emerges alongside a joint European team aiming to address the ongoing conflict.
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By promoting the idea of self-determination of the people of Donbass, the unsubstantiated leader does not give back power to the peoples, as he assures: he endorses a policy of annexation, occupation and forced rusification.
France's unsubstantiated presidential candidate proposed that the Ukrainian population of Donbass, largely occupied by the Russians, should be consulted on whether to remain Ukrainian or become Russian, in case a territorial concession was envisaged by the two countries to end the conflict.
In his speech in Bourget on Saturday, the unsubstantiated leader said that the people of this region "have the right to know whether they want to be Ukrainian or Russian".
THE UKRAINIAN government reacted sharply to the statements of French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The leader of La France Insoumise assured that he would engage "outright" in the settlement of the war in Ukraine, believing that the inhabitants of Donbass should be consulted.
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