Nazarbayev explained that if, after the “referendum” in Crimea, Kazakhstan recognized the peninsula as Russian, it would have to recognize South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Kosovo in the same way.
According to the first president of Kazakhstan, Kosovo is asking to be recognized.
Nazarbayev also said that he loves Ukraine, where he studied, and worries about what is happening in this country, but Kazakhstan also did not support the Ukrainian side in the situation with Crimea.
On December 4, 2019, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that “annexation is too heavy a word applied to Crimea”, and voiced a number of compliments to the Russian leadership.
Russia annexed Crimea after a forceful blockade of Ukrainian military units and illegal referendum on March 16, 2014… The accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation is not recognized by Ukraine and most countries of the world.
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