Bangladesh has done the right thing by abstaining from voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Crimea issue as it has not deviated from its foreign policy, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam clarified on Tuesday.
“Being a G77 member-country and being a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), we don’t take specific side on any country’s internal issue. We haven’t deviated from that policy. That’s why we abstained from voting,” he told reporters at the Foreign Ministry.
Earlier on Thursday, the United Nations General
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tion from the UNGA resolution.
The envoy claimed that joining of Crimea with Russia was not an issue of ‘annexation’, rather a ‘reunification’ one. The citizens of Crimea chose to be part of Russia and the West was playing a double standard in this regard, he also said.
Nicholaev also said a referendum was held in Crimea on March 16 in full compliance with democratic procedures and international norms.
More than 82 percent of the electorate took part in the vote. Over 96 percent of them spoke out in favour of reuniting with Russia. These numbers speak for themselves, the diplomat said quoting the Russian President.
