「偽の投票」、効力なし　ウクライナ東・南部の編入認めず―Ｇ７首脳

　【ベルリン時事】先進７カ国（Ｇ７）首脳は２３日の共同声明で、ウクライナ東部・南部４州の親ロシア派支配地域で同日始まったロシアへの編入を問う「住民投票」について、「偽の投票」であり、法的効力はないと強調した。また、これに基づく編入は決して認めないと強く非難した。
　Ｇ７は、投票について「ウクライナの領土の現状を変更するための偽の口実作り」に向けたロシアの試みだと指摘。「国連憲章や国際法への明確な違反で、国家間の法の支配と真っ向から対立するものだ」と批判し、強制的にロシアの支配下に置かれた地域のウクライナ人住民の正当な民意を代表するものではないと断言した。（2022/09/24-05:56）

Leaders of the Group of Seven major powers Friday stressed that there are no legal effects in "sham" referendums launched in four Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine on joining Russia.
   The G-7 leaders "strongly condemn the sham referenda that Russia attempts to use to create a phony pretext for changing the status of Ukrainian sovereign territory, which is subject to an ongoing Russian aggression," said a statement issued on the day.
   "These sham referenda initiated today by Russia and its proxies have no legal effect or legitimacy," said the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States plus the European Union.
   The leaders criticized that the votes launched in the four eastern and southern areas in Ukraine "clearly breach the United Nations Charter and international law and go diametrically against the rule of law among nations."
   "These referenda in areas that have been forcibly put under Russia's temporary control in no way represent a legitimate expression of the will of the Ukrainian people, who have consistently resisted Russian efforts to change borders by force," the statement continued.