Did the UN Secretary General that Ukraine does not exist as a state?

In social networks, publications are popular that, according to the former head of the organization, Pan Hi Muna, Ukraine at one time “did not apply for borders” and therefore cannot be considered a state. We checked the reliability of such messages.

At the end of February and early March 2022, reports were distributed on social networks that the Secretary General of the United Nations, Pan Hi Moon in 2014, stated: Ukraine "did not apply for border execution since 1991, so the state does not exist." Such posts can be found, in particular, in the official group "National Liberation Movement" on VKontakte and several others public In the same social network. Similar publications are easy to detect in Facebook, Twitter and on other platforms.

The text about the “sensational” statement of the former UN Secretary General in February-March 2022 survived another wave of popularity, because it appeared eight years ago. This was installed by a factor from Kazakhstan, Georgia, USA and other countries. Let's analyze the main theses proposed by the authors of the viral text.

On April 7, 2014, UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon made a shocking statement, the distribution of which is prohibited in the Ukrainian media and on the Internet. The conflict between the two countries was discussed at a meeting of the UN Security Council

Judging by the UN website, which presents the transcript of all meetings of the Security Council, on that day, participants in the SB Not met. Pan Hi Moon April 7, 2014 He was In Rwanda at events dedicated to the anniversary of the Tutsi genocide. We were not able to find words in the statements and speeches that the Ukrainian state does not exist due to the lack of a “application” to determine the borders.

Ukraine has not registered its borders since December 25, 1991. The UN did not register the boundaries of Ukraine as a sovereign state. Thus, it can be assumed that Russia does not violate its rights in relation to Ukraine.

To begin with, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter, which laid the beginning of the organization, signed Representatives of 50 countries - among them was not only the Soviet Union, but also separately Ukrainian and Belarusian SSR. In 1991, their successors to the UN steel, respectively, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. It is the membership of the UN that distinguishes a recognized state from partially recognized or unrecognized - for example, Abkhazia, Ossetia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Kosovo and some other countries do not have the status of a UN member.

The UN responsibility in general Not included The resolution of issues about the approval of state borders-this problem should be discussed by the very neighboring countries. Moreover, on March 27, 2014, the UN General Assembly Accepted The resolution, in which it confirmed “its commitment to sovereignty, political independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its international boundaries” and called for ignoring the results of the referendum in the Crimea and Sevastopol as “without legal force”.

According to the CIS agreement, the territory of Ukraine is an administrative unit of the USSR. So no one can be accused of separatism and a violent change in the boundaries of Ukraine.

Commonwealth independent There were states proclaimed in December 1991, and the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian USSR declared About independence at the end of August of the same year. The text of the relevant agreement begins with the following words: “We, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation (RSFSR), Ukraine as a state-owned state of the SSR Union, which signed the Union Treaty of 1922, further called high contracting parties, we state that the SSR union as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality ceases to exist.” As well as from this and other fragments of the agreement, it is obvious that the contracting parties consider each other precisely as independent states, and also “recognize and respect the territorial integrity of each other and The inviolability of existing boundaries Within the framework of the Commonwealth. "

According to international law, the state simply does not have officially recognized boundaries. To solve this problem, Ukraine must complete the demarcation of the border with neighboring countries and get the consent of neighboring countries, including Russia, to their common border. It is necessary to document everything and sign agreements with all neighboring countries.

The author of rights in the part that Ukraine (like any other state) must agree on its borders with the countries surrounding it. But these borders have been determined by bilateral agreements for a long time. So, in relation to the Russian-Ukrainian border, an agreement signed In January 2003, the presidents of the two countries Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian authorities reached similar agreements with other neighbors: in 1991 with Hungary, in 1992 with Poland And Moldova, in 1993 with Slovakia In 1997 with Belarus And in 2003 with Romania.

It is also important to understand the difference between delimitation and demarcation of borders. Delimitation - legal design of the border, its description and/or image on the map; Demarkation - designation of the border on the ground using special border signs on the basis of a delimitation agreement. Problems with border demarcation do not mean the cancellation of the borders delimitation agreement.

According to the Budapest memorandum and other agreements, Ukraine has no boundaries. The state of Ukraine does not exist (and never existed!)

In the Budapest memorandum of 1994 It is not said The fact that "Ukraine has no boundaries" and that this state "does not exist." The document signed by the heads of Ukraine, Russia, the USA and the UK is devoted to guarantees of security and territorial integrity of the country in exchange for refusing to own nuclear weapons. By the way, in the first paragraph of the Memorandum of Russia, the USA and the UK “confirm to Ukraine its obligation <...> respect independence, sovereignty and existing boundaries Ukraine ".

Factcheck.kz portal not only made out the main theses of the viral text, but also traced The history of its origin. According to the investigation of our colleagues, the text signed by a certain Alexander Panin, working in the Central Information Agency of New Russia and posting his material in the public domain at the end of May 2014, became viral. Almost two months earlier, a very similar text was published signed by the Kharkov social activist Irina Hizhnyak, who referred to the “English Channel Thamza”. The factor could not find such a television channel that worked in 2014. The Thams.tv website belongs to the Thams production company, which is far from socio-political topics and produces Entertainment shows, for example, The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent for British Television and Too Hot to Handle for Netflix.

Thus, Pan Gi Moon never made a speech, allegedly liable formed by the text popular in social networks. In turn, the theses set forth in it are not true.

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