双语新闻：普京与克里米亚领导人签署条约使克里米亚归属俄罗斯 Putin and Crimean Leaders Sign Treaty Making Peninsula Part of Russia

俄罗斯总统普京星期二同克里米亚签署条约，把位于黑海上的这个半岛并入俄罗斯版图。

与普京一起签署条约的有克里米亚地区政府的总理，克里米亚议会议长和克里米亚港口城市塞瓦斯托波尔的市长。俄罗斯的黑海舰队就驻扎在塞瓦斯托波尔。

克里姆林宫在其网站上说，克里米亚“应自条约签署之日起被视为加入俄罗斯联邦。”

克里米亚上星期日举行全民公投，结果多数人赞成加入俄罗斯。普京一天前签署一项政令，承认克里米亚半岛是“一个拥有主权的独立国家”。

普京星期二声称克里米亚公投符合民主和国际准则。

美国副总统拜登星期二抵达波兰，与该地区关切俄罗斯军事入侵克里米亚的盟国举行会谈。拜登将会晤波兰和波罗的海国家爱沙尼亚、立陶宛和拉脱维亚的领导人。

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Crimea signed a treaty Tuesday to make the Black Sea peninsula part of Russia, just two days after it voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum the United States and the European Union declared "illegal."

Mr. Putin signed the document with ((Sergei Askyonov,)) the prime minister of Crimea's regional government, ((Vladimir Konstantinov,)) the speaker of Crimea's parliament, and ((Aleksei Chalov,)) the mayor of the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based.

The Kremlin said on its website that Crimea "shall be deemed accepted in the Russian Federation from the date of signing the treaty."

The treaty was signed shortly after Mr. Putin told Russia's parliament in a televised address that Crimea has always been an "inalienable" part of Russia, and a day after he signed a decree recognizing the peninsula as "a sovereign and independent country.

President Putin said Tuesday that the referendum complied with democratic and international norms.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Poland Tuesday for talks with regional allies concerned about Russia's military incursion into Crimea. Biden is meeting with the leaders of Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.