 The United States refused to discuss territorial changes in the former Russian Empire without the participation of a Russian government.Thus, it declined to recognize the incorporation of Bessarabia into Romania, and, unlike its position of recognizing the independence of the Baltic States, it insisted that Bessarabia was a territory under Romanian military occupation, and incorporated the Bessarabian emigration quota into the Russian one in 1923.In 1933, the U.S. government tacitly included the Bessarabian emigration quota into that of Romania, an act considered a "de facto" recognition by Romanian diplomacy.