Poland proposed the transfer of Crimea under the UN mandate

Control of the Crimean peninsula should be transferred to the mandate of the United Nations, so that an international mission can prepare a ,,fair referendum’’ to determine its status as a member of any country. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stated this on September 19 this year during the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv.

,,Crimea is symbolically important for Russia and especially for President Vladimir Putin, but it is also strategically important for Ukraine. We could put it under a UN mandate with the mission of preparing a new referendum after we check who the legal residents are’’, suggested the Polish minister.

          In response, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement labeling the proposal on the future status of Crimea as ,,unacceptable’’. However, he did not specifically name Sikorski as being responsible for such initiatives.

          ,,Ukraine’s territorial integrity has never been and will never be a subject of discussion or compromise’’, the ministry specified. ,,We count on stronger support from our partners to force Russia to once again comply with international law and withdraw its troops and military equipment from all of our sovereign territory’’.

          In February this year, Polish President Andrzej Duda was also criticized by the Kyiv regime after suggesting that Ukraine might never get Crimea back, although Sikorski insisted at the time that Warsaw would always recognize the peninsula as Ukraine’s integrated territory.