The remarks made by Lu Shaye, the Chinese ambassador to France, caused an outcry in Europe.
Indignant, the three Baltic countries summoned the representatives of Chinese diplomacy on Monday.
"Petit Lu", as he is nicknamed, was also called to the Quai d'Orsay.
In a forum in Le
Monde
, European parliamentarians ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs to declare him “persona non grata”.
Rarely, Lu Shaye's declarations provoked a unanimous reaction from all Europeans, by offering them an opportunity to put pressure on China on the Ukrainian file.
By contesting on the set of LCI not only the Ukrainian character of Crimea, but also the legitimacy and the existence of the countries resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union, which according to him
'have no effective status in international law'
, is the ambassador skidding or echoing Beijing's position?
Faced with Darius Rochebin, the ambassador contradicted China's official policy…
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