In the framework of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, during which the Special Representative handed over a symbolic printed copy of the declaration by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dated July 25, 2018, which envisages clear and unequivocal position of the United States regarding the non-recognition of the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by the Russian Federation.
"In that declaration, Secretary of State Pompeo said that the United States does not and will not accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea," Kurt Volker said and solemnly presented a copy of the declaration to the President of Ukraine.
Kurt Volker added that this declaration is similar in spirit and letter to the declaration issued in 1940 by then-Acting Secretary of State of the United States Sumner Welles regarding the US non-recognition of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States.
The President thanked Kurt Volker for such a symbolic step and for the clear and consistent US policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by the Russian Federation.
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