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The Nato's secretary general has called Russia's organisation of elections in occupied parts of Georgia and Ukraine "completely illegal". The former Prime Minister of
Speaking while in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as part of a three-day tour of the South Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, spoke to BBC Newshour earlier, following Vladimir Putin's widely expected win in the Russian presidential election.
Caucasus, Jens Stoltenberg said Russia's election was "clearly neither free nor fair". “It's not Putin who is winning," he told the programme- adding the result showed It is "the West and the free" who are actually "on the backfoot" and "on the edge of losing".
He called on Russia to reverse its recognition of the Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. Russia has recognised the areas as independent states since invading both regions in support of separatist forces in 2008. Yatsenyuk, who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2014-2016,
“We including at the time when Russia annexed Crimea, said Ukraine should
fully support Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. South Ossetia try to take back the occupied peninsula.
and Abkhazia are part of Georgia," Stoltenberg said. He told the BBC that the West's lack of strong response to Crimea's occupation was a "clear-cut sign that Putin is to move forward".
Stoltenberg's visit began with meetings with Azerbaijani leadership on Sunday and Monday and will conclude in Armenia on Tuesday. I do remember the response of the Western world after Putin illegally annexed Crimea, it was extremely weak."
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