Crimea's regional legislature on Tuesday adopted a "declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea." The document specifies that Crimea will become an independent state if its resdents vote on sunday March 16,2014 in favour of joining Russia
With the support of 78 of its 81 members, the chamber passed a “declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea”, saying: “In the case that the referendum on 16 March shows that Crimea should become part of the Russian Federation, then Crimea will become an independent and sovereign state in the form of a republic.”
Ukraine's interim leaders, in the meantime, established a new national guard on Tuesday and appealed to the United States and Britain for assistance against what they called Russian aggression in Crimea, under a post–Cold War treaty.
The Ukrainian parliament said it would dissolve the Crimean assembly if it did not cancel the referendum by Wednesday March 12,2014
The Ukrainian parliament passed a resolution calling on the United States and the U.K., co-signatories with Russia of that agreement to "fulfill their obligations ... and take all possible diplomatic, political, economic and military measures urgently to end the aggression and preserve the independence, sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine."
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk who will also visit the United Nations Security Council this week, said the Budapest Memorandum, a 1994 treaty under which Ukraine agreed to give up its Soviet nuclear weapons, calls for Russia to remove troops from Crimea and for Western powers to defend Ukraine's sovereignty.
"We are not asking for anything from anyone," Yatsenyuk told parliament. "We are asking for just one thing: Military aggression has been used against our country. Those who guaranteed that this aggression will not take place must from the one side pull out troops and from the other side must defend our independent, sovereign state."
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