According to
Poklonskaya, after this trip Trump "would show the whole world that he is
an independent and decent politician".
MOSCOW, June 15.
/TASS/. Russian lawmaker and former Prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya
has invited US President Donald Trump to visit the Black Sea Peninsula.
Earlier, US media
reports said citing sources that Trump told G7 leaders at a summit in Canada’s
Quebec that "Crimea is part of Russia because everyone there speaks
Russian." The White House has neither confirmed nor denied the report.
"It turns out
that US politicians are far away from their President Donald Trump and the
generally recognized principles of law and justice," Poklonskaya said,
according to her press service.
"Today they are
afraid of commenting on their president’s statement about Crimea, namely that
Crimea is Russia’s territory. This is an obvious thing and making a sensation
or pretending to be deaf and mute is the reaction of cowards," the MP
noted.
"We invite US
President Donald Trump to visit Crimea where he would make sure that his
statement was right," Poklonskaya stressed. According to the lawmaker,
after this trip Trump "would show the whole world that he is an
independent and decent politician and the first person in America who knows what
the words "democracy," "justice" and "courage"
mean."
According to the
BuzzFeed news website, during the dinner Trump reportedly asked why the G7
leaders were siding with Ukraine. The US president said that "Ukraine is
one of the most corrupt countries in the world," the source said.
The Republic of
Crimea and Sevastopol, a city with a special status on the Crimean Peninsula,
where most residents are Russians, refused to recognize the legitimacy of the
authorities in Kiev who seized power amid riots during a coup in Ukraine in
February 2014.
Crimea and Sevastopol
adopted declarations of independence on March 11, 2014. They held a referendum
on March 16, 2014, in which 96.77% of Crimeans and 95.6% of Sevastopol voters
chose to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The Russian president signed the
reunification deals on March 18, 2014. Despite the convincing results of the
referendum, Kiev refused to recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
Source: ITAR-TASS
17-06-2018
