G7 Urges International Community to Reject Russia’s Expansionism

Russia’s attempt to further annex the territory of Ukraine is a new “low point” in its blatant defiance of international law and should be duly evaluated by the entire international community.

It is reported that this was mentioned in the statement of the G7 foreign ministers on the illegal annexation of the sovereign territory of Ukraine, which was published on the website of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany that took over the presidency of the G7.

The G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America as well as the senior Representative of the European Union unanimously condemned in the strongest terms Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its continued violation of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of the country.

The statement says: “President Putin’s efforts to incorporate Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions into the territory of the Russian Federation constitute a new low point in Russia’s blatant flouting of international law, and yet another example of Russia’s unacceptable violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty, the UN Charter, and the commonly agreed principles and commitments of the Helsinki Final Act and the Paris Charter. We will never recognize these purported annexations, nor the sham ‘referenda’ conducted at gunpoint… We reaffirm that the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya as well as Crimea are integral parts of Ukraine,”