Members of the Group of Seven -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. -- met Monday in the Netherlands where they issued The Hague Declaration, an official condemnation of Russia's recent actions toward Ukraine and a resolution to expel Russia from the G8.
As a demonstration of the G7's defense of Ukraine's sovereign territorial integrity and independence, the member states condemned Russia for both its support of the Crimean referendum and its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. "We do not recognize either," the G7 asserted.