Russia Desak Negara-negara Anggota Penerima Hasil Referendum Di Wilayah Ukraina, Klaim Persuai Pialam PBB

Retailing of referendum votes in Ukrainian territory. (Source: TASS/Donat Sorokin)

JAKARTA - Russia urges UN member countries to recognize the results of a referendum in the House of Representatives (Donetsk), LPRR (Luganks), Zaporizhia and Kherson Region, as all efforts to reject a new reality will fade into uncertainty, Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy director of the Department of Non-Proliferation and Arms Control said at the UN General Assembly First Committee on Thursday. "We urge UN member states to accept the new reality that is inevitable, determined by life itself and based on freedom of expression from the will of the people," the diplomat said, citing TASS 7 October.

"The truth will find its way, whether the West wants it or not. All attempts to resist the new reality will disappear, while the people's decision will remain," he explained.

He further explained that referendum in the four regions fully adheres to the principles of equality and the right of the people to determine their own destiny that is immortalized in the United Nations Charter.

"The results of the plea speak for itself. Residents of the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporizhia Regions exercise their legitimate rights to determine their own destiny and make conscious choices who choose Russia. They have the opportunity to independently and freely express their opinions, as confirmed by many observers, including international ones," the diplomat said.

"This step is in full accordance with the principles of equality and self-determination of the nations as immortalized in the United Nations Charter, Declaration of International Law Principles 1970 concerning Friendship Relations and Inter-State Cooperation in accordance with the United Nations Charter and other documents," he claims.

Russia annexed the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine, which represent about 15 percent of the country, after holding what it calls a referendum, despite being criticized by the governments of Kyiv and the West as illegal and coercive.