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ukrainian government. constitutional reform as they move forward towards elections this spring. uts we're going to stand firm in our unwavering support for ukraine. as i told prooim minister last rime minister ed states stands with the people of ukraine and their right to determine their wn destiny. to keepoing to keep working with congress and our international rartners to offer ukraine the omic support tha that it needs o weather this crisis and to improve the daily lives of the ukrainian people. and as we go forward, we'll oftinue to look at the range of riendse can help our ukrainian and the achieve their universal rights and the security, and prosperity and dignity they eserve. e.anks very much. i think we'll be available for questions. thank you. >> are you surprised that mr. putin has taken this course? >>> and president obama again discussing sanctions levied on on or russian officials said to many members of russian putin inner circle. martha, you spoke to us earlier today about the blunt phone call america" earlier that president obama and a and president put. rheainly ri

the ukrainian parliament has already accepted the resolution we ut their independence and have to wait for the result. as to the statements of our western partners, i have already spoken on this subject. we believe that the right for self determination has never been canceled. this is one of the -- of the u.n. stages, and there have been quite a few instances, including the recent history of when people were going -- they were talking about kosovo, but there's another state where at the end of the last century there was a referendum about the independence from france. d one of the islands was gaines and france insisted on a recounting of the vote so that not the overall number of people who voted in the islands, but each and every island separately. and the island of myota remained within france, first as a clone yill territory, and later on it s included into french republic as another department. what was that? separation. d or the unite nations and africa did not accept the decision of france, but the european union lived with it. of the o the reaction western partners, let me say a

more than one language is spoken. ,ut in the case of the ukraine when the vote for independence came, the russian speaking torsion of the country, as well as the ukrainian speaking portion voted overwhelmingly for independence. he voted to remove him from the that is 100 and 99 more than the number required for passage. the eu observers, including the polish, german and french were at key of during the time and informed there had been no clue and in fact, the overwhelmingly majority of parliament had voted for a government. to encourage inclusion in the ukraine, we recognize polling shows the overwhelming majority of people wanted independent ukraine? some lookased and west. ultimately it is up to the population to resolve this peacefully through the elected government, but i think we can assert the principal that ukraine be allowed to serve both of those roles. to stress the importance of inclusion within different languages. because so many conflicts start out over language. . the eastern ukraine once had an additional 8 million ukrainian speakers. joe stalin unfortunately during the force collectivization of the country moved them to siberia, most of

ute of ukraine. forces have positioned themselves outside of a recruitment office positioning armed men on every floor. >> this comes after troops reportedly tried to take over a ukrainianus? >> reporter: a little bit of a crew down there but we're waiting to hear reports from them. we're hearing that pro-russian forces have taken over the military office not far from where we are. they barged their way in that 93 have occupied every single floor. we are seeing a much more visible presence of these pro-russian forces or local militia. you know, they're not wear anything particular uniform, but they are now the law here in crimea. and in fact, the prime minister who was self-appointed just over a week ago who is obviously very pro-russian. he said that the only forces who should be here other than his local militia, this local army, is the russian forces. he said any other force would be considered an occupying force. he's told ukrainian troops that either swear allegiance to the russians, or they leave. so this is the ultimatum that has been given to them in. there was an attack from a military base about an hour and a half away from simferopol here. obviously, the russ