German government press service corrects data on Crimea after Lavrov’s criticism

The press service of the German cabinet of ministers has corrected data on Crimea on the German government’s website after criticism by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Spiegel Online web publication reported.

Lavrov said December 9 that “a factsheet on Crimea recently appeared on the website of the German government.”
“Among other things, it says that Crimea has at various times been inhabited by Tatars, Ukrainians, Armenians, Greeks and Germans. Russians are not mentioned there,” the Russian foreign minister said.

“If it is the official website of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, I would like to know who compiled that factsheet. We have filed such a request,” he said.

A spokesman for the German cabinet of ministers told Spiegel Online that “an editorial error” occurred. “We regret it,” he said.

Now the factsheet reads that “the population [of Crimea] over centuries has comprised groups of various national, ethnic and religious affiliation, among them Russians, Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians, Armenians, Greeks and Germans.”..............http://itar-tass.com/en/world/76656912/12/13
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