decisions or elections, which include verification of the existence of an accurate and voter registration list and confidence that only people holding Ukrainian passports would be allowed to vote.

None of these conditions were fulfilled. So of course it is the opposite end of any scale from the referendum taking place in Scotland.

I'll go a couple of more times and then make progress given the restriction on the debate. My honorable friend and then the honorable member.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can I say to my honorable friend...

LU STOUT: And that was the British Foreign Secretary William Hague addressing the situation in Ukraine and also that speech given about an hour ago by the Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Putin called Crimea an inalienable part of Russia.

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