China said on Monday it respected the “sovereign state status” of all ex-Soviet countries, after Beijing’s ambassador to France sparked outrage in Europe by questioning the sovereignty of those nations.
“China respects the sovereign state status of the participating republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters.
Beijing’s ambassador to France Lu Shaye triggered a furore after suggesting that countries that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union “don’t have effective status under international law because there is not an international agreement confirming their status as sovereign nations”.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell branded the remarks “unacceptable”,…
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