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USA Issues 'Crimea Declaration' reaffirming it will never recognize Crimea as part of Russia.

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Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2018 · News & Politics

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The United States announced a formal policy reaffirming its rejection of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasting Moscow for seeking “to undermine a bedrock international principle shared by democratic states.”

Pompeo's announcement July 25 2018, followed recent conflicting remarks by President Donald Trump and administration officials about whether Washington was moving to reverse a policy in place since Russia's seizure of the Black Sea peninsula in 2014.

Pompeo in his announcement referenced the Welles Declaration of 1940. That act was a decision by the United States not to recognize the Soviet annexation of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. That policy lasted for 50 years and outlasted the Soviet Union.

Read more about the Crimea declaration:
1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pompeo-talks-tough-on-russia-as-lawmakers-seek-answers/2018/07/25/a07ee2f2-902c-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?utm_term=.379c83b460d5
2) https://www.rferl.org/a/u-s-issues-crimea-declaration-reaffirming-rejection-of-russia-s-annexation/29390681.html

Read more about the Welles Declaration:
1) https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/07/245160.htm
2) http://estonianworld.com/life/75-years-since-the-us-refusal-to-accept-the-annexation-of-estonia/

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