NAD

The Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea, – based on the historic commonality of their peoples and taking account of the ties established between them, – recognizing and ratifying the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the UN Charter, in accordance with which all peoples have an inalienable right to determine their political status freely and without outside interference and to implement their own economic, social, and cultural development, and each state is obliged to respect that right, – being fully resolved to ensure respect for and observance of human dignity, rights, and freedoms, including the right to life, freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and convictions for all within their territories, without distinction, in accordance with the generally accepted principles and norms of international law and cognizant of the close interconnectedness of the other main principles of international law enshrined, in particular, in the UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and with the principle of respect for and observance of human rights, – expressing the common will of their peoples, indissolubly linked by a common historic destiny, to live together within a democratic federal rule-of-law state, – striving to ensure the well-being and prosperity of their peoples, – based on the free and voluntary expression of the will of the peoples of the Crimea for a general Crimean referendum, held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol 16 March 2014, during which the peoples of the Crimea adopted a decision to reunify with Russia with the rights of a Russian Federation component, – taking into account the proposal from the Republic of Crimea and the special-status city of Sevastopol to admit Crimea, including the special-status city of Sevastopol, into the Russian Federation, have concluded this treaty on the following. Continua a leggere→