China assured on Monday that they respect the “sovereign state status” of the countries of the former Soviet Union, following controversial statements made by the Chinese ambassador to France.
“China respects the sovereign state status of the participating republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters.
Beijing’s ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, caused outrage after suggesting that countries that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union “don’t have effective status under international law because there is not an international agreement confirming their status as sovereign nations.”
The ambassador’s comments appeared to refer to all former Soviet republics which emerged as independent nations after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including members of the European Union.
These comments caused an uproar in the Baltic states, and were described as “unacceptable” by EU Vice-President and Chief of Foreign affairs Josep Borrell, for whom “the EU can only assume that these statements do not represent the official position of China.”
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote on Twitter that “if anyone is still wondering why the Baltic States don’t trust China to ‘broker peace in Ukraine’, here’s a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our countries’ borders have no legal basis”
“China respects the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all countries and upholds the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,” Mao insisted Monday.
“After the collapse of the Soviet Union, China was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with relevant countries,” she added. –i24 News
China Claims To Respect the “Independence and Freedom Of Imprisoned Human Rights Activists”
China assured on Monday that they respect the “independence and freedom of all its imprisoned citizens”, including prisoners who are “serving lifetime sentences” for simply “speaking out about human rights.”
“China respects the free status of all its detained and imprisoned citizens,” the Chinese government said in a statement issued on Monday, “including those who will remain locked up indefinitely for discussing the issue of human rights and freedom in public.”
“Which is why we will continue to supply all of our permanently incarcerated human rights activists with their daily diet of bread crumbs and water, as guaranteed to them by the Chinese constitution and by Chinese authoritarian law,” the statement concluded.
The China egg is a road to kill. This deserves the criticism of the day. Where is fearless Joe?