Crimea disconnected from Ukraine if the country's territorial integrity, and respect this fact, the international community will create a dangerous precedent for the whole of Europe, said Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

" It was all with infractions of territorial integrity in the European Union, and if this principle we recognize, then we in Europe this may happen, then I will be talking not only about the Crimea and Ukraine, but then in every European country have the opportunity to be challenged certain lands, certain areas that will disturb the peaceful coexistence in the European Union, " Merkel said in the first day of the weekend after meetings with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, in response to a request to comment on the message of the Vice Chancellor, who first called for the federalization of Ukraine and the refusal of the Crimea.

Merkel added that in view of such circumstances, it is very important to respect international community boundaries established after the Second world war.

Crimean region was from the RSFSR to 19 February 1954, when the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the transfer region in the Ukrainian SSR. The founder of the decree is considered to be the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, has long worked in Ukraine.

Crimea and Sevastopol became the Russian regions after held there on March 16 referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents were in favour of joining the Federation.

According to the Treaty of accession, all residents of Crimea are recognized by residents of Russia, wrote a message about what you want to leave the citizenship of Ukraine. According to the FMS, the disclaimer from Russian citizenship filed only 3427 people. Just Crimea is home to about 2 million people.

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