EU should stop calling Ukraine's southeast residents "pro-Russian separatists" (share of its responsibility)

It is time the European Union stop calling residents of southeastern Ukraine "pro-Russian separatists," the Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement on its website. "The EU still prefers to brand the population of southeastern Ukraine as 'pro-Russian separatists' and leave unnoticed all our explanations, which Russia gave repeatedly for the purposes of the presence of a number of our armed forces near the Russian-Ukrainian state border," the document said.

"We consider the persistent attempts of Brussels - to punish residents of Crimea and Sevastopol for their fair and clear declaration during the referendum on the peninsula's fate - to be absolutely unacceptable," the Foreign Ministry said in regard to the statement of the Council of Europe on Ukraine passed on June 23, Interfax reports.

"If the EU is indeed interested in playing a serious positive role in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, it is time it starts reconsidering its approaches. It needs to adapt to the real situation and not fear the inertia within the EU," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the statements adopted at the Council of the European Union on June 23 biased and far from reality. "Moscow has pointed out the 'conclusions' on the situation in Ukraine adopted at the session of the Council of the European Union on June 23," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a report posted on its website on Tuesday.

"We have to state again that the evaluations given by Brussels to the events in Ukraine and the continuing silence on facts that are 'unsuitable' to the European Union are biased, politically motivated and far from reality and the accusations made against Russia are ungrounded, if not clearly falsified," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"Our EU partners keep trying to fit the crisis in Ukraine into the narrow framework of the picture that is being carefully drawn in some capitals westward of Kiev," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"How else can we explain the absence in the 'conclusions' made by the Council of the European Union of any mention of the deaths of dozens of children in the 'anti-terrorist operation,' on the many thousands of refugees that continue coming form Ukraine to the Russian Federation, the numerous violations of the Russian state border by Ukrainian military, and the outrageous attempt to storm the Russian embassy in Kiev?" the Russian Foreign Ministry said, Interfax reports.

By sending a police mission to Ukraine the European Union should realize a considerable share of its responsibility for the security situation in the country and understand that law and order should be ensured equally for all Ukrainians, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"Upon making the decision to establish such a mission in Ukraine, the EU should realize a considerable share of its responsibility for the state of things in the security sector in the state. We expect that in any case Brussels will assume the understanding that law and order should be ensured equally for the entire Ukrainian nation without ethnic, religious, language and other differences and taking into account regional peculiarities," the Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement on Tuesday...............................http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_24/EU-statements-on-Ukraine-biased-far-from-reality-Moscow-8576/
24/6/14
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