UN Assembly Declares Crimea Referendum And Russian Annexation Invalid

A wide view of the General Assembly. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe (file)

Backing Ukraine’s Territorial Integrity, UN Assembly Declares Crimea Referendum Invalid -- UN News Centre

In a vote that reaffirmed Ukraine’s unity and territorial integrity, the United Nations General Assembly today adopted a measure underscoring that the mid-March referendum in Crimea that led to the peninsula’s annexation by Russia “has no validity” and that the parties should “pursue immediately a peaceful resolution of the situation.”

By a vote of 100 in favour to 11 against, with 58 abstentions, the 193-member Assembly called on all States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any alteration of the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on the basis of the 16 March referendum “and to refrain from any action or dealing that might be interpreted as recognizing any such altered status.”

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