On April 21, Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye told French television that the former republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), aka Soviet Union, had not been recognized as sovereign states:
"These ex-USSR countries don't have actual status in international law because there is no international agreement to materialize their sovereign status."
That is false.
The international community, including the PRC, recognized the sovereign statehood of the former republics of the Soviet Union, and those 15 countries are members of the United Nations. The Western democracies never recognized the Soviet Union’s annexation of the three Baltic states in the 1940s.
International community recognizes former Soviet republics as independent states
On December 8, 1991, the heads of states of three Soviet republics - Belarus, Russia and Ukraine - met in the village of Viskuly, Belarus, and signed the Belovezha Accords, which dissolved the Soviet Union:
“We, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation (RSFSR), Ukraine, as the founding states of the USSR that signed the Union Treaty of 1922, hereinafter referred to as the High Contracting Parties, state that the USSR as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality ceases to exist.”
The People's Republic of China quickly recognized the independence of all the former republics of the Soviet Union and established diplomatic relations with them.
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