OREANDA-NEWS The idea of Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to transfer Crimea under the mandate of the United Nations (UN) is ignorance, according to the head of the parliament of the peninsula, Vladimir Konstantinov. His words are reported by RIA Novosti.

This is how the parliamentarian commented on the initiative of Warsaw. The head of the Polish Foreign Ministry earlier proposed to transfer Crimea under a UN mandate to "prepare an honest referendum" on the status of the peninsula. In his opinion, this procedure can be postponed for 20 years.

"It would be nice for Pan Sikorsky to study history in between bouts of Russophobia. Then he could have remembered that Poland's existence for the last 250 years depended on the goodwill of Russia. They decided to divide Poland — and there is no Poland," Konstantinov said.

He, as previously proposed by State Duma deputy Leonid Ivlev, also called for Poland itself to be placed under UN administration until a responsible government is formed there.

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the proposal. The official representative of the ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Russian regions are not the subject of negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Kiev also spoke out against Sikorsky's idea. The head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, criticized the proposal, saying that Crimea is allegedly Ukrainian, and Russia violated international law and must answer for it.