Extract from Lords debate on Russia - Jan 29
Tuesday, 30 January 2018 07:19
Lord Balfe (Con):...There are another couple of differences. I am
probably a very sad person, but over the Christmas holidays I was
reading the account of the Soviet Politburo of the 1930s. That
clearly does make me very sad. The republic of Abkhazia was causing
problems because it would not unite with Georgia; it said that it
was a separate place. This is in 1933. South Ossetia was also
causing problems. These are not new problems. Some of these people,
whether we like it or not, do not...Request free trial
(Con):...There are
another couple of differences. I am probably a very sad person, but
over the Christmas holidays I was reading the account of the Soviet
Politburo of the 1930s. That clearly does make me very sad. The
republic of Abkhazia was causing problems because it would not
unite with Georgia; it said that it was a separate place. This is
in 1933. South Ossetia was also causing problems. These are not new
problems. Some of these people, whether we like it or not, do not
regard themselves as being part of the states to which they were
assigned, probably wrongly, during the Soviet era. The point I make
is that, if we believe in self-determination for Gibraltar and
the Falklands, we need to find some way of having
self-determination for some of the other bits and bobs around the
world that we seem to get very worked up about...
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