
"If
the people of Crimea decide to join Russia in the referendum, we, as
the upper house, will certainly support this decision,"
Valentina Matvienko
said at a meeting with
Vladimir Konstantinov,
his counterpart in the Crimean parliament.
A delegation from the Crimean peninsula were
in Moscow to meet parliamentarians who warmly welcomed the guests and
signaled their willingness to support the neighboring region.
On Thursday, the Moscow-backed authorities in Crimea, a region where ethnic Russians are the majority, called for the referendum in mid-March to confirm their plan to secede from Ukraine and to make the region part of Russia.
U.S.
and European leaders said such a referendum would violate the Ukrainian
constitution and international law. The West also warned that financial
and political sanctions could be imposed against Russia.
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