“These days, the Russian occupation authorities are making considerable efforts to hold their pseudo-referendums in the temporarily occupied territories at all costs. And they insist that they will be transparent and legitimate. For this, they even called foreign observers,” kyiv warned in a statement.
And he stated that the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories and all interested agencies, “including law enforcement, already know their names.”
“These are representatives of the own Russia, as well as of Belarus, Syria, Egypt, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Togo Y South Africa. In essence, they are participating in a collective crime against the sovereign and independent state of Ukraine,” kyiv denounced.
The official text evaluated that “all who dare to please criminals become criminals.”
Uruguay distanced itself from the official
The complaint was already circulating yesterday even before it was made official and immediately the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry and the Broad Front, a force of which the observer of the consultations is the leader, distanced themselves from the presence in those territories of sebastian hagobyan, official of the Municipality of Montevideo.
According to Montevideo newspapers, Hagobian integrates the International Relations Commission of the FA and chairs the youth branch of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean. The leader is in Zaporizhia, while the other referendums were held until today in Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson.
At first, Hagobian told the RIA Novosti agency that he was there “on behalf of 67 Latin American party organizations from 30 countries,” who were seeking “to make sure that everything is legal here.”
“It is important to be there and see what is happening without intermediaries. We want this event to be a triumph of democracy and for people to be able to freely and independently determine their own destiny,” he explained, and highlighted the existence of “an organized people that can freely self-determine.
Later, the leader seemed to change his tone and wrote on his Twitter account that “electoral and war observation do not imply validating results, but rather obtaining first-hand information,” he clarified that he was on leave and that his presence in the zone was to “hold linked political dialogues against Azerbaijan’s invasion of Armenia.”
And the weekly Search cited statements in which Hagobian said that he was in Moscow to do a geopolitical workshop when he was invited to participate as an observer in the voting. “It was a historic opportunity that he couldn’t turn down,” he said then.
Last night, The Uruguayan Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which it stated that “in no way” has the Government “expressed support for said referendums, nor have there been actions or declarations that directly or indirectly allow us to assume that the national authorities clearly endorse these pronouncements illegal”.
“Uruguay has not sent observers for these referendums. The individual participation of Mr. Sebastián Hagobian, a member of the Broad Front, does not compromise or affect in any way the position of the Uruguayan State and its government on this issue,” he said.
The statement also coincided with the speech before the UN by Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo, who condemned the Russian invasion and supported the Ukrainian authorities.
The Foreign Ministry “does not endorse actions of any nature aimed at legitimizing the occupation through the use of force on part of the Ukrainian territory, as it has repeatedly expressed in its official positions made before multiple international forums,” the agency insisted.
The FA also clarified that Hagobian “is not in Russia on behalf of the Broad Front or the Uruguayan Assembly,” but “on a private trip and in no case does he represent or have the support of this political force.”
To further clear up the doubts, the head of the Frente Amplio party, Fernando Pereira, said at a press conference -reported by the El País site- that the alliance “not only does not support him but also did not appoint him or agree that he is doing this task.” .
Source: Ambito
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