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Offered to pay to them, but in may 2011, vanuatu's foreign minister announced his nation was prepared to recognize the independent nation of abkhazia. a few days later, vanuatu's ambassador to the united nations said, no, that's not true, we don't recognize this abkhazia thing as an independent nation. no, that was a misunderstanding. a few days after that vanuatu's foreign minister insisted in this youtube video, yeah, there had been a misunderstanding but are totally going to recognize abkhazia. are we going to do that? >> i wish to reaffirm vanuatu's recognition of the republic of abkhazia....

Thing as an independent nation. no, that was a misunderstanding. a few days after that vanuatu's foreign minister insisted in this youtube video, yeah, there had been a misunderstanding but are totally going to recognize abkhazia. are we going to do that? >> i'm sorry. i was away. we got our wires crossed. so the foreign minister said, yes, you know, we do recognize

That country. then the u.n. ambassador said, no, we don't recognize the country. the foreign minister came back with the youtube clip and said we recognize the country. a few months after that was posted on youtube, the vanuatu government came out and said, no, no, we don't recognize abkhazia. this thing was an absolute mess. after the vanuatu government came out a few months later and said, on second thought, we do recognize abkhazia, an interview was given and said, you know what, i have no idea if we recognize it. i have no clue. they made it official, said, we're not recognizing the countr...

There's been any broadcast on any television network where you're talking about vanuatu and abkhazia in the same sentence. >> but it ends up being, i think, part of the calculation that russia must be making here. this referendum, everybody knew there was going to be some sort of referendum staged in crimea in terms of how to try to normalize the russian invasion. did you know or should we have expected it would be to annex them into the russian federation? >> i think you're on to something here. can i take a step back? >> yeah, please. >> people are saying, putin's crazy, not acting rationall...

Independent nation, whether or not they send an ambassador. whether they set up embassies, whether they open up trade relations. all of these other things you have to do if another country come into an existence and would be just like what happened in georgia. instead, if russia just takes crimea into its own territory, takes crimea into the existing nation of russia, then russia does something that is arguably even more inflammatory to the international community. just unilaterally annexing new territory. but it's an action that saves them from the vanuatu-style international humiliation they...