MikeC
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I'm looking for "the debunk" on this.
Various sites around the conspiracy-sphere are repeating a statement that Ban Ki Moon has said that Ukraine has no "real" borders because the current "borders" are "just" the administrative divisions of the USSR....as if that somehow stops them being country borders now.
Voice of Russia seems to be the source:
There is no quote in it as to the date and time it was made, and no direct quote.
A typical site that has picked it up is this, which includes the following quote:
Various sites around the conspiracy-sphere are repeating a statement that Ban Ki Moon has said that Ukraine has no "real" borders because the current "borders" are "just" the administrative divisions of the USSR....as if that somehow stops them being country borders now.
Voice of Russia seems to be the source:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has made an interesting statement on Ukraine, which, for some reason, was overlooked by the Ukrainian media. That’s according to the Ukrainian Choice news portal. The United Nations Security Council has, for the umpteenth time, considered the Ukrainian issue, and experts made a rather unexpected conclusion. It turned out that Ukraine has no official boundaries. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kiev hasn’t demarked its borders. Nor has it registered at the United Nations the demarcation of its borders as a sovereign state.
There is no quote in it as to the date and time it was made, and no direct quote.
A typical site that has picked it up is this, which includes the following quote:
I can find no such statement by Ban Ki Moon - lots of other stuff is quoted, but not this rather critical piece of information - nor does it say where or when the supposed statement was made. I cannot find it in his website speeches either.[/ex]
The UN also came to a similarly clear position. It passed a resolution that "affirms commitment to the sovereignty, political independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders."
Where this becomes a problem is that, according to a statement from UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, Ukraine is missing borders.
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