But a few MEPs went thither to remark the controversial 2014 referendum, subsequently the Russian appropriation. All but one of the French MPs are Republicans.
The confrontation company - erst called the UMP - is led by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy. They met Russian MPs in Moscow originally on Thursday, including Posit Duma (lour family) utterer Sergei Naryshkin. They volition drop the residue of the day and Friday in Crimea, visiting Yalta, the regional great Simferopol and the porthole of Sevastopol. It is described as a individual chat.
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French 'daze' The pro-Russian leader in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, aforementioned the inflict was "a realisation by the strange MPs that the sanctions against Russia are inefficient". He and former pro-Russian politicians, who ousted Crimea's quondam Ukrainian government, are content to Westerly visa bans and plus freezes. Russia maintains that the 2014 referendum - held later Russia seized Ukrainian bases in Crimea - legitimised the part's "counter" to Russia.
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French MP Thierry Mariani (unexpended) led the aggroup to Moscow and Crimea
France and Ukraine deliver condemned a inflict to Crimea by a radical of French MPs in rebelliousness of Westerly sanctions against Russia.
The sanctions were imposed later Russia annexed Crimea in Borderland 2014. The peninsula is lawfully contribution of Ukraine. Thierry Mariani and astir 10 early centre-right Republican Company MPs arrived in Crimea on Thursday. The French Extraneous Ministry aforementioned it was a "irreverence of external law".
Ukraine called the MPs "irresponsible". The chaffer "shows disesteem for province reign", the Ukrainian Strange Ministry was quoted as locution.
Westerly politicians get avoided visiting Crimea, to follow with the sanctions authorities. It had been transferred to Soviet Ukraine in 1954, during Moscow's commie ruler.
French Strange Rector Laurent Fabius aforesaid he was "dismayed" by the MPs' inflict to Crimea, the French paper Firing reported. Mr Fabius, a Socialistic, aforementioned the chaffer "risks violating outside law - ingress Crimea without the Ukrainian government' license agency identification of Moscow's claims".
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