 In April 1993, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence submitted an appeal to Verkhovna Rada to suspend the Yalta Agreement of 1992 that divided the Black Sea Fleet that was followed by the request from the Ukrainian Republican Party to recognize the Fleet either fully Ukrainian or a "fleet of a foreign country in Ukraine".Also over 300 Russian legislators called the planned Congress of Ukrainian Residents a political provocation.On 14 April 1993, the Presidium of the Crimean parliament called for the creation of the presidential post of the Crimean Republic.