A number of Western countries are ready to "ignore" the reunification of the Crimea with Russia for the sake of maintaining relations with Moscow, has written to the permanent representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmitry Kuleba on his Facebook page.

The diplomat compared this circumstance with the position of some countries for entry into the USSR of the Baltic republics.

"some Western countries did not recognize the occupation and subsequent annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940. Even after the Second world war did not recognize. It turned out that the USSR was generally acknowledged, and participation in the Union of the three republics no"
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