"However, there are two requirements that are fundamentally important to us: the implementation of the February 21 agreement, which paves the way for constitutional reform and the establishment of a coalition government, as well as the wide representation of Ukraine's political forces in this process," he added.
- Russia does not consider goal to return Yanukovych to power — UN envoy
Moscow does not consider its goal to return Viktor Yanukovych to power, but continues to consider him a legitimate president of Ukraine, said Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin.
- "Our task is not to return Yanukovuch to power. Do you think we don’t understand that Yanukovych won’t come back to power and run the state?" he said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to Churkin, the fate of Yanukovych "should be solved by the Ukrainian people."
"But the matter is that within the agreement (between Yanukovych and opposition) there are fixed parameters of democratic exit of Ukraine from the crisis", stated Churkin...............http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_04/Russia-will-discuss-Ukraine-crisis-with-its-intl-partners-if-Feb-21-deal-is-honored-Moscow-1886/
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Ukrainian representative to UN publicly justifies nationalists...
ReplyDeleteUkraine's Ambassador to the United Nations Yuriy Sergeyev on Monday has publicly justified Ukrainian nationalists, saying the charges brought by the Soviet Union against them at the Nuremberg trial were fabricated.
"The Russian-Soviet side at the time tried to press the Western allies to declare Bandera movement members and others murderers. The Nuremberg trial did not declare it. Why? Because the facts were falsified and the Soviet Union's position at the time was unjust," the diplomat told reporters.
Sergeyev asked not to generalize the picture of present Ukraine and not to suppose all its residents in western regions were nationalists and Bandera followers. "Millions of Ukrainians in the west are normal European citizens," he stressed, saying the same about the Svoboda (Freedom) party, which is believed to be ultra-right.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/721891
4/3/14
Putin condemns Ukraine 'coup'....Russia not yet sending troops into Ukraine....
ReplyDeleteRussian President Vladimir Putin says there is no need yet to send Russian troops into Ukraine.
But Russia reserves the right to use "all means" to protect citizens in eastern Ukraine, Mr Putin said.
He denied Russian troops had besieged Ukrainian based in Crimea - they were pro-Russian "self-defence" forces.
Mr Putin called the toppling of President Viktor Yanukovych in the capital Kiev an "anti-constitutional coup and armed seizure of power".
He said "militants" had plunged the country into "chaos". He also said Ukrainian "nationalists" and "anti-Semites" were roaming the streets of Kiev and other cities.
If Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine asked for Russia's help then Moscow would respond, he said.
"If we see this anarchy beginning in the eastern regions we reserve the right to use all means," he said.......................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26433309
4/3/14
US hypocrisy over ‘Russian aggression’ in Ukraine....
ReplyDeleteAs divisions deepen between the eastern and western regions of Ukraine, the backers of the putsch regime in Kiev portray Russia as a reckless aggressor to absolve their own responsibility for engineering the crisis.
While denunciations of Moscow have streamed out of western capitals in recent days over the standoff in Crimea, it should be understood that the political crisis currently unfolding in Ukraine could have been wholly avoided. In attempts to defuse unrest and maintain legal and societal order, ousted President Yanukovich offered remarkable concessions in his proposal to install opposition leaders in top posts in a reshaped government, which was rejected. Russia expressed readiness to engage in tripartite negotiations with Ukraine and the European Union with the hope that both Moscow and Brussels could play a positive role in Ukraine’s economic recovery, but the EU was unwilling to accept such a proposal. The February-21 agreement was mediated by Russia, France, Germany and Poland and aimed to end the bloodshed in Kiev by reducing presidential powers and establishing a framework for a national unity government, in addition to electoral reform, constitutional changes, and early elections.
There was clearly no shortage of opportunities to ease the polarization of the Ukrainian state through an inclusive political solution, and yet the opposition failed to uphold its responsibilities, resulting in the ouster of Ukraine’s democratically elected leader to the detriment of the country’s political, economic, and societal stability..................http://rt.com/op-edge/ukraine-us-hypocrisy-russia-758/
4/3/14
West turned political life in Ukraine into farce - Putin....
ReplyDeleteThe West has turned political life in Ukraine into a farce, President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Novo-Ogaryovo on Tuesday. "I sometimes get the impression that a laboratory, located over there, across a big pool, somewhere in America, is running experiments on rats of a sort, unaware of the consequences of what they are doing," Putin said. "Why should all this have been done? Who can explain? There are no explanations whatsoever," Putin said.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
Russia does not recognize presidential elections in Ukraine if they are conducted under terror - Putin....
ReplyDeleteRussia does not recognize presidential elections in Ukraine if they are conducted under terror, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
Russia ready to cooperate even with incumbent Ukrainian authorities
Moscow is ready to cooperate even with the incumbent Ukrainian authorities it considers illegal, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "By the way, we are exhibiting patience and readiness for certain cooperation even under such circumstances. We do not want to discontinue cooperation and I instructed the government several days ago to think about ways to carry on contacts even with those Kiev authorities that we consider illegal with the purpose of preserving contacts in the economy and industries," Putin told reporters on Tuesday.
"We think that our actions are quite grounded and any threats towards Russia are counterproductive and harmful," the Russian president stressed.
OSCE mission can be sent to Ukraine, but this issue needs to be discussed - Putin
OSCE mission can be sent to Ukraine, but this issue needs to be discussed, Russian President Vladimir Putin siad.
Voice of Russia, Interfax