The international community, including the PRC, recognized the sovereign statehood of the former republics of the Soviet Union, and those 15 countries are members of the United Nations.
that “the Soviet occupation and annexation of the Baltic States was never recognized as legal by the Western democracies.”, lecturer in international relations at Britain’s Keele University, “a territory essentially becomes a sovereign state when its independence is recognized by the United Nations. As the largest and most inclusive multilateral organization, its sanctioning of sovereign statehood makes sense.
Admission to the U.N. proves that a state has an internationally recognized independent status. According to, the adoption of a new country must be unanimously supported by the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and two-thirds of the U.N. member nations: “The Security Council considers the application. Any recommendation for admission must receive the affirmative votes of 9 of the 15 members of the Council, provided that none of its five permanent members — China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America — have voted against the application.
If the Council recommends admission, the recommendation is presented to the General Assembly for consideration. A two-thirds majority vote is necessary in the Assembly for admission of a new State.” Two Soviet republics, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , along with the USSR, were among the
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