Crimea’s 2014 Secession Referendum Was Legal – French Lawmaker
Sputnik – 25.07.2015
Residents of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea have a legal right to hold a secession referendum, including the 2014 vote that separated them from Ukraine and reunited them with Russia, French lawmaker Claude Goasguen, currently in Russia with the French delegation, said Saturday.
“They say that Crimean people had no legal right to hold a referendum. Of course they had! Why not? This is what saved the region from war,” Goasguen said at a press conference in Moscow.
A group of 10 French lawmakers, led by lower-house National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee member Thierry Mariani, arrived in Russia for a three-day visit on Thursday. The delegation visited Crimea to see the Black Sea peninsula following its secession from Ukraine in March 2014.
Both the French and Ukrainian governments have condemned the trip, considering it a breach of international law.
The Crimean peninsula split from Ukraine to rejoin Russia in March 2014 after a referendum in which over 96 percent voted in favor of the secession.
Kiev and its Western allies labeled the vote an “annexation,” while Moscow pointed out that the actions of the local populace were within the international legal framework.
1 Comment »
Leave a Reply
Featured Video
#PizzaGate: What We Know So Far
For more videos go to the Aletho News – Video Category
or go to
Aletho News Archives – Video-Images
From the Archives
The Epstein Connection to 9-11
Christopher Bollyn – September 10, 2019
Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein have been partners for years. Epstein financed and managed the Wexner Foundation, which gave Barak $2.3 million in 2004, as reported by Israeli journalist Erel Segal. (Source: Revealed: Jeffrey Epstein Entered Partnership Worth Millions With Ehud Barak in 2015, Haaretz )
Michael Chertoff, the former Assistant Attorney General who managed the “non-investigation” of 9-11 (i.e. the cover-up), is on the board of advisors of Ehud Barak’s company, Carbyne, which was funded by Jeffrey Epstein. This connects the criminal network behind 9-11 with the Epstein blackmail operation.
The cover-up is the most essential part of the 9-11 terror atrocity because it is what allows the real masterminds behind the terrorism to attach a false narrative to the crime. The false narrative is designed and prepared in advance to deceive the people and bring public opinion into alignment with the real agenda behind the terror operation. … continue
Aletho News Original Content
Three Mile Island, Global Warming and the CIA
By Aletho News | January 9, 2012
This article will examine some of the connections between the US and UK National Security apparatus and the appearance of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory beginning after the accident at Three Mile Island. … continue
About Aletho News’ Name
Blog Roll
Latest Comments
roberthstiver on Analysis: Dominant Hypothesis… jbthring on Analysis: Dominant Hypothesis… igybundy on OPCW Gives Syria 90 Days to De… brianharryaustralia on Analysis: Dominant Hypothesis… roberthstiver on Analysis: Dominant Hypothesis… brianharryaustralia on Analysis: Dominant Hypothesis… brianharryaustralia on New evidence shows the FBI kne… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa… Tsisageya on Blindness on Iraq War “Pa…
Aletho News- The ADL’s duplicitous ‘Task Force on Middle East Minorities’ July 11, 2020
- Analysis: Dominant Hypothesis Among Reporters on 9/11 Was that Explosions Brought Down Twin Towers July 10, 2020
- New evidence shows the FBI knew General Flynn was not ‘agent of Russia’ but prosecuted him anyway July 10, 2020
- Chile Senate approves resolution to adopt law boycotting settlement goods July 10, 2020
- Israel detains two Hamas officials in the occupied West Bank July 10, 2020
- Iran explosions: Did Israel and the US just start a cyber war? July 10, 2020
- Blindness on Iraq War “Patriotism” July 10, 2020
- Netherlands to take Russia to European Court of Human Rights over MH17 downing July 10, 2020
- Nuclear confrontation becomes likelier as US races for global domination, Russian FM says July 10, 2020
- India to buy Venezuela oil under swap deal amid US sanctions July 10, 2020
- US plans to invade Venezuela through Colombia July 10, 2020
- Pizzagate July 10, 2020
- Danon has exposed the fact that the UN has abandoned Palestine and the Palestinians July 9, 2020
- A Jewish Zionist Tent Is No Place For Palestinians July 9, 2020
- OPCW Gives Syria 90 Days to Declare Chemical Weapons July 9, 2020
- How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies July 9, 2020
- Nahal Raba Quarry July 9, 2020
- Russian Foreign Ministry Sees UK’s ‘Magnitsky’ Sanctions as Another Unfriendly Step July 9, 2020
- If Americans Knew
- Xymphora
- In the pool for sure July 11, 2020
- Unclear on the concept July 10, 2020
- Indian Punchline
- India shouldn’t align with Five Eyes July 9, 2020
- Craig Murray
- The BBC World War Two Porn Page July 11, 2020
- Not A Lot Of People Know That
- No, June 2020 Was Not the Hottest June on Record July 11, 2020
- Energy Consumers To Pay For £25bn Green Energy Plan July 10, 2020
- More extreme weather events with planetary warming–Met Office July 10, 2020
Reblogged this on TheFlippinTruth.
LikeLike