Ukraine protests over Crimea information in Kazakh schoolbooks:
ASTANA. Sept 25 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Embassy has lodged a protest with Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry over information about Crimea offered by school books of the Mektep publishing house.
"Since high school textbooks produced by Kazakh publishing house Mektep describe the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as a region of the Russian Federation, the Embassy of Ukraine lodged a note of protest with the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan," Ukraine's charge d'affaires to Kazakhstan said in a statement, which was circulated by the diplomatic mission's press service on Friday.
Ukraine believes that the publication of "this information runs counter to the position of both the international community and the leadership of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which has voiced its support for Ukraine's territorial integrity more than once," the statement says.
In its protest, the Ukrainian side asks Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry and Education and Science Ministry to "facilitate the immediate recall of the aforementioned textbooks from high schools of the Republic of Kazakhstan."