“It has been calculated that if the right of nations to self-determination is actually realized throughout the globe, then instead of the 193 states that are now members of the UN, more than 500 or 600 states will arise on Earth.
Of course it will be chaos.
For this reason, we do not recognize either Taiwan, or Kosovo, or South Ossetia, or Abkhazia.
Apparently, this principle will also be applied to quasi-state territories, which, in our opinion, are Lugansk and Donetsk,” Tokayev said at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, answering a question from the moderator, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
He added: "This is a frank answer to a frank question."
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Russia's recognition of the independence of the LPR and DPR.
In a conversation with UN Secretary General António Guterres, he recalled the decision of the international court on the situation in Kosovo, which was supported by the international community.
The Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics became independent by analogy with this decision, the head of the Russian state stressed.