Tatar Leader Asks Putin to Pull Russian Troops from Crimea
Source: VOA
A Crimean Tatar leader told Russian President Vladimir Putin the secession of Crimea from Ukraine to join Russia would violate an international treaty in which Russia, Britain and the United States vowed to keep Ukraine intact.
One of the most senior representatives of the Muslim Tatar minority, Mustafa Dzhemilev, spoke to VOA’s Azerbaijani Service after a Wednesday phone conversation with Putin. He said he told the Russian leader the Tatars were resolutely opposed to the annexation of Ukrainian territory by another state.
"I told President Vladimir Putin that the best way to avoid confrontations would be to withdraw Russian soldiers from Crimea," said Dzhemilev.
The international treaty he was referring to in his conversation with the Russian leader was the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in which Russia, and Great Britain and the United States pledged to protect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in return for Kyiv giving up its nuclear arsenal.
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The world has got to send the message: Putin Go Home
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