Answering a question about the war in Ukraine, Tokayev noted that the right of nations to self-determination contradicts the principle of the territorial integrity of states, and stated that “if the right of nations to self-determination is actually realized throughout the globe, then instead of 193 states that are now part of composition of the UN, there will be more than 500 or 600 states on Earth.
“Of course, it will be chaos. For this reason, we do not recognize either Taiwan, or Kosovo, or South Ossetia, or Abkhazia, and, apparently, this principle will be applied to quasi-state territories, which, in our opinion, are Lugansk and Donetsk,” the President of Kazakhstan explained.
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One of the reasons for the invasion of Ukraine Russian authorities, including Putin, called the situation in Donbas.
Before that, the leaders of the illegal armed groups “DPR” and “LPR” Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik turned to Putin with a request help “in repelling aggression” allegedly from Ukraine.
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