普京與克里米亞領導人簽署條約使克里米亞歸屬俄羅斯

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Crimea signed a treaty Tuesday to make the Black Sea peninsula part of Russia, just two days after it voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum the United States and the European Union declared "illegal."

Mr. Putin signed the document with ((Sergei Askyonov,)) the prime minister of Crimea's regional government, ((Vladimir Konstantinov,)) the speaker of Crimea's parliament, and ((Aleksei Chalov,)) the mayor of the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based.

The Kremlin said on its website that Crimea "shall be deemed accepted in the Russian Federation from the date of signing the treaty."

The treaty was signed shortly after Mr. Putin told Russia's parliament in a televised address that Crimea has always been an "inalienable" part of Russia, and a day after he signed a decree recognizing the peninsula as "a sovereign and independent country.

President Putin said Tuesday that the referendum complied with democratic and international norms.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Poland Tuesday for talks with regional allies concerned about Russia's military incursion into Crimea. Biden is meeting with the leaders of Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.俄羅斯總統普京星期二同克里米亞簽署條約，把位於黑海上的這個半島併入俄羅斯版圖。

與普京一起簽署條約的有克里米亞地區政府的總理，克里米亞議會議長和克里米亞港口城市塞瓦斯托波爾的市長。俄羅斯的黑海艦隊就駐紮在塞瓦斯托波爾。

克里姆林宮在其網站上說，克里米亞“應自條約簽署之日起被視爲加入俄羅斯聯邦。”

克里米亞上星期日舉行全民公投，結果多數人贊成加入俄羅斯。普京一天前簽署一項政令，承認克里米亞半島是“一個擁有主權的獨立國家”。

普京星期二聲稱克里米亞公投符合民主和國際準則。

美國副總統拜登星期二抵達波蘭，與該地區關切俄羅斯軍事入侵克里米亞的盟國舉行會談。拜登將會晤波蘭和波羅的海國家愛沙尼亞、立陶宛和拉脫維亞的領導人。