As specified in the material, during a meeting with Pompeo, activist Emin Japarova urged the Secretary of State to keep the peninsula in the field of view of US foreign policy.
At the same time, the expression on Pompeo’s face, the newspaper writes, showed that he had “other priorities than the conference on the Crimea,” about which Dzhaparova spoke.
“Crimea is lost. World players understand this. Ukraine gave Crimea, and Russia is not one of those from which something can be taken away, ”the portal quotes the words of the meeting participant, who cited Pompeo.
The State Department said earlier that the United States would continue to impose sanctions against Russia until it returned Crimea to Ukraine.
January 29, the US Treasury expanded the list of sanctions against Russia.
Crimea became the Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which most residents spoke out for reunification with Russia.