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DATELINE: 8 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
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8 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivanna Bilych, Co-author of the Report:
"Russia’s actions strike at the very heart of international law and the fundamental principles of the United Nations that have helped preserve peace since World War 2nd. If we allow this framework of international law to be dismantled, we run into the risk of new world war. In the report we examined the immediate political and legal developments leading to the domestic crisis and outlined the options Ukraine might have to redress the wrongdoings that have occurred. We also explored the often overlooked geopolitical role of energy in the evolving crisis.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexander Gudko, Co-author of the Report:
"In our report we question the timing and the context of this issue of decentralization and the right to self-determination. We think that the right to self-determination cannot be combined with the use of force by a neighbour state and this is just the wrong time to bring up this issue."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivanna Bilych, Co-author of the Report:
"In Texas more than 70 percent of the people speaks Spanish, doesn’t mean that Mexico can come and invade the United States. Because Switzerland people speak French and Italian and German doesn’t mean that Switzerland can be invaded. Those are Ukrainian citizens. Crimean tartars, Russian Ukrainian, Jewish Ukrainian, Armenian Ukrainian, Bulgarian Ukrainian, they are Ukrainian citizens.”
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One of the authors of a report on the legal implications of the situation in the Ukraine, today (8 May) said "Russia’s actions strike at the very heart of international law and the fundamental principles of the United Nations that have helped preserve peace since World War 2nd.”
Ivanna Bilych, co-author of a report entitled "Crisis in Ukraine and its legal aspects" said that “if we allow this framework of international law to be dismantled, we run into the risk of new world war.”
In the report, she said, “we examined the immediate political and legal developments leading to the domestic crisis and outlined the options Ukraine might have to redress the wrongdoings that have occurred.”
She added that the report also explores “the often overlooked geopolitical role of energy in the evolving crisis.”
Alexander Gudko, also a co-author of the report, questioned the timing in bringing up the issues of decentralization and self-determination of Ukrainian provinces. He said “the right to self-determination cannot be combined with the use of force by a neighbour state.”
Comparing the situation in Crimea, Bilych said that the fact that in Texas more than 70 percent of the people speak Spanish, “doesn’t mean that Mexico can come and invade the United States.”
She said Crimean tartars, Russian Ukrainian, Jewish Ukrainian, Armenian Ukrainian, Bulgarian Ukrainian, “they are Ukrainian citizens.”
The launching of the report was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-American Human Rights organization (RAZOM).
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